Re: Can one build 2.5.68 with allyesconfig?

Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:26:17 +0200


On Wed, 23 April 2003 17:01:12 -0700, John Cherry wrote:
>
> No. I think Randy Dunlap replied earlier that he spent considerable
> time weeding out broken drivers from an allyesconfig configuration.

Yes, it takes manual inspection of some 30 failures, each costing just
a minute or so. But the compile time between those really hurts, it
generates many context switches for my brain.

> This still did not result in a bootable image.

Which may be a good thing. 28MB would have used all my memory not too
long ago. :)

> If you want to build with allyesconfig and continue on when you run into
> errors, just use the -k (keep going) option with make.

Good idea. Maybe that can cut down the context switches.

> Feel free to hack on the compregress.sh script to produce compilation
> results that would benefit what you are doing. It lives on the
> stability page.

Will do. Thank you!

Jörn

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