Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80461
"make xconfig" selects wrong default config file
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: In the kernel source tree directory, the file .../scripts/Makefile has (at least) two errors. 1) inconsistency in usage of "KERNTYPE" versus "KERNELTYPE" 2) the condition if [ -f configs/*-$KERNTYPE.config ]; then will not find the matching config file in the configs/ directory. i'm not sure what is going on here, but there's something about the if construct in bash that is just not processing that variable expansion correctly. if you run "make xconfig", you'll see in the final output a test against "ERNTYPE", as if the $K is being parsed as ${K}ERNTYPE. if you edit that file with the default vim color settings, you'll see what i mean -- the K is blue, while the rest of the variable name is black. (what's up with that?) in any event, if you don't have an initial .config file, that conditional will not find a perfectly appropriate config file in configs/, but will always use the file .../arch/i386/defconfig instead. not a fatal error, just misleading. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. look at scripts/Makefile 2. run "make xconfig" with no initial .config file, and see the output when you exit 3. Actual Results: incorrect initial config file is selected for .config Expected Results: the file under the configs/ directory should be selected Additional info:
The $KERNTYPE is expanded by make, which has a different syntax for references of variables with multicharacter names ($(KERNTYPE) or ${KERNTYPE}). In this case though, KERNTYPE is a shell variable, so it should be $$KERNTYPE. Found both in vanilla RHL 8.0 and Phoebe (kernel-2.4.20-2.2)
I get this error even though I have a .config file in /usr/src/linux-2.4 and in /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs
Eureka - I solved it! make xconfig has a dependency on wish which requires tk to be installed which requires tcl to be installed. Do you want to add a dependency to kernel-sources, that tk and tcl must be installed? I don't know RH procedure, even though this is a low, it should be an easy fix. I bet this is also in the new beta! Here is the error: wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk make: wish: Command not found make: *** [xconfig] Error 127 I installed tcl/tk and it started up. Both 7.3 and 8.0 have that funny ERNEL stuff but it doesn't matter that is NOT the problem.
while the dependency issue is most likely a good fix, you can't ignore that that script still has an obvious error with the KERNTYPE/KERNELTYPE inconsistency at the very least.
Please delete my erroneous comments #2 and #3 above. My comments were a dup of 68323
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