Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:08:05 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Make clean impossible in 2.3.42 |
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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.
> 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.
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