Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:09:23 +0200 (EET) From: jau@iki.fi (Jukka A. Ukkonen) To: remko@FreeBSD.org (Remko Lodder) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/121292: FreeBSD-7.0 kernel build fails on FreeBSD-6.3 Message-ID: <200803060509.m2659N0C085966@jau.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <47CC3A46.4080906@FreeBSD.org> from "Remko Lodder" at Mar 3, 8 06:49:58 pm
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Quoting Remko Lodder:
>
> Kris is not wrong here, you are confused ;)
Entirely correct. I was confused.
Anyhow my custom kernels have always been (and probably always
will be) based on generic and almost invariably only adding
things which are not default parts of generic.
The problem was a missing "device wlan_amrr" line which I had
skipped by accident while merging my older 6.3 custom config
and 7.0 generic.
Previously parallel make has not let the potential error
messages roll several hundreds of lines out of a 50 line
xterm window but given up very quickly after an error.
For some reason this time any alleged error messages managed
to speed out of the xterm buffer completely.
Recording the whole build to a typescript file will apparently
be necessary in the future.
This experience anyhow raised a question as well.
Should there be some sort of dependency checking added to
kernel builds such that any missing features were implicitly
included if other explicitly configured features depend on
them?
Such an extension could also make a point of informing the
poor fool building the kernel - in this case that would have
been me - of the features that need to be implicitly included
as dependencies.
Cheers,
// jau
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