Kernel build failure

"Alan J.Wylie" <ebpxyvahk-gCrXjPrFnW/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There is a problem with recent sm checkouts building the 2.6 kernel.

The build process is getting stuck in a loop during "make oldconfig".

A strace of the looping process (7924) reveals repeated

write(1, "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64"..., 75) = 75


 7255 pts/3    S+     0:00              |                       |   \_ /bin/bash ./scripts/Build-Pkg -this_is_the_2nd_run -3 -cfg alanwXP -root auto -chroot -id  <snip>
 7872 pts/3    S+     0:01              |                       |       \_ yes 
 7873 pts/3    S+     0:00              |                       |       \_ /bin/bash ./scripts/Build-Pkg -this_is_the_2nd_run -3 -cfg alanwXP -root auto -chroot -id <snip>
 7874 pts/3    S+     0:00              |                       |           \_ make ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= KCC=kcc-34 oldconfig
 7923 pts/3    S+     0:00              |                       |               \_ make ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= KCC=kcc-34 -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/kconfig oldconfig
 7924 pts/3    R+     0:32              |                       |                   \_ scripts/kconfig/conf -o arch/i386/Kconfig

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Alan J. Wylie                                          http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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