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SubjectRe: Make clean impossible in 2.3.42
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Sergey Kubushin wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Sergey Kubushin wrote:
> > > > I wonder have anyone noticed that "make clean" after a build in 2.3.42 fails
> > > > with "xargs: environment too large for exec" ?
>
> > > workaround: Remove your .config manually.
>
> > It's dumb. "make clean" does not remove .config at all. It's supposed to get
> > rid of all object files and libraries built on earlier stages. I did patch
> > the makefile to output all "find" output to a file (it's 32K+ in size) and
> > run a for loop for every line of this file. It's not a right thing and
> > slows down the cleanup a little bit, but it's definitely needs fixing
> > in the kernel itself. It's neither makefile's nor xargs' fault. It's the
> > kernel itself who has to be blamed.
>
> someone posted a patch to lkml which removed all the CONFIG_xxx from the
> environment.

Aha. Did you look in 2.3.43pre8? Is it in?

It's nice that "someone" posted a patch to l-k. I'm able to get the thing
running too without such trivial patches. But it looks like nobody cares to
fix a kernel which all they pretend to care of.

> > I'm pretty sure that all such "little" misconveniences are caused by slight
> > changes in kernel behaviour. Can someone among the kernel gurus explain what
> > was the reason behind changing a cmdline interface in /proc ? Have we won
>
> I haven't checked into this specific change but it doesn't matter:
> 2.3.x is the time when you are allow to break interfaces.

It does. Each such break which affects a helluva lotta decent apps MUST be
justified. It MUST have a reason to be even considered, not speaking of
getting into the kernel.

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