Re: Kernel build failure

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:28:29 +0100, Clifford Wolf <[email protected]> said:

> could you provide me with the data to reproduce it anyways? it sure
> would be good to at least somehow catch such a problem instead of
> running into an endless loop.

The problem is where we do "yes | make oldconfig". Some of the
responses won't accept a blank line, and if they receive one, just
prompt again.

I'd been thinking about the kernel configuration for sometime,
anyways, before I ran into this problem. I'm afraid I don't have much
time for blue skies stuff at the moment - all my time is spent
maintaining an ever-increasing number of remotely sited Rock based
boxes.

I've been mulling over using something like expect(1) to interact with
make config.

I'm glad to see that things are now a lot more elegant than they were
in Rock 2.0, where a lot of the kernel configuration setting was done
with .patch files, which was what had prompted me to think about
alternatives.

-- 
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