Re: Error when building kernel

"Pierre Labastie" ([email protected] via alfs-discuss Mailing List) <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lfs.automated
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On Sun, 2023-09-17 at 09:27 +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> 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.

Done at commit 6d9bd8e8e8

Pierre

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