Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:19:46 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ obscure build failure if xz(1) not installed |
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On 02/09/2011 11:52 AM, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > The failure is obscured by trailing make output, and since a broken > bzImage is created, "make install" succeeds, and the first visible > failure is after reboot when I get the lovely > > Decompressing Linux... > > Input is not in the XZ format (wrong magic bytes) > > -- System halted > > Sometimes I run "make -j4 && make install" which would have caught this, > but the error should be more prominent and we shouldn't create bzImage > if the dependencies are not present. >
Agreed that the bzImage should not have been created. That should make the error prominent enough (your complaint that it gets obscured with make -j is "just how things work, sorry.")
-hpa
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