Re: Error when building kernel

On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 09:10 +0200, Dragan wrote:
>  On 17/09/2023 08:04, Pierre Labastie ([email protected] via alfs-
> discuss Mailing List) wrote: 
>  
> > But error 124 is most likely due to a timeout, which most likely means your 
> >  kernel config is not up to date, and "make oldconfig" was waiting for some 
> >  input... 
> >  Previously, the build would have been stuck forever. Now it times out after
> > a 
> >  minute. 
> >  
> >  Pierre 
> >  
>  
>  Thanks. You were right! 
>  
>  I have wrongly assumed that I will get option to run make oldconfig in the
> shell and then resume build of kernel! 
>  
>      If the kernel-config file is not up to date (missing options or 
>      whatever), the kernel "make" will hang, waiting for input. So 
>      run "make oldconfig" explicitly, with a timeout. 
>          Fixes: #1736 

Hmm, agreed it is not clear. But a commit log like that is to tell what we
implemented (run "make oldconfig" explicitly, with a timeout), not what the user
will have to do :)

Will add something in the help about kernel config.

Pierre

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