Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:08:20 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] kbuild: fix for updated LZ4 tool with the new streaming format |
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On 07/15/2013 03:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I don't know how to do this. Any suggestions? > > It has to be done at `make config' time. We'd need to probe for the > presence of lz4c and then.... what? > > Is there any precedent for this? > > I don't think we can just ignore the absence of lz4c - the user has > selected a config which his system cannot build. The problem lies > within randconfig itself. >
We keep running over the need to be able to have kconfig run tests on the build system (for toolchain support or for optional tools needed); running them in the Makefiles (i.e. at Kbuild time) is simply too late.
-hpa
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