linux/autoconf.h problem

[Steve Papacharalambous]

Hi Dan,

I ran into this problem building a powerpc cross compiler.

Ok, I see the problem with the arm architecture,  it is difficult to 
know what the right thing to so is to satisfy all cases,

Best regards,

Steve

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Steve Papacharalambous wrote:
> 
>> I've just run into the linux/autoconf.h problem, and fixed it using 
>> the patch suggested by Rafael Ávila de Espíndola to crosstool.sh
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> @@ -145,8 +146,15 @@
>>  if test -f "$KERNELCONFIG" ; then
>>      cp $KERNELCONFIG .config
>>  fi
>> +
>>  if test -f .config; then
>>      yes "" | make ARCH=$ARCH oldconfig
>> +else
>> +    make ARCH=$ARCH mrproper
>> +    case "$LINUX_DIR" in
>> +    *2.6.*) make ARCH=$ARCH defconfig ;;
>> +    *)      yes "" | make ARCH=$ARCH config ;;
>> +    esac
>>  fi
>>
>>  # check for kernel version 2.6.*
>>
>> [/snip]
>>
>> This patch takes care of cases where there isn't a kernel config file 
>> provided in the crosstool archive, so I wondered whether this patch 
>> will make it into the next release of crosstool?
> 
> 
> The arm folks feel violently that 'make defconfig' is a misfeature;
> there are so many variants of arm that there is no one default,
> is the argument IIRC.  So I'm not sure the patch is right,
> nor do I know what the right thing to do is.
> 
> Which architecture did you run into this on?
> - Dan
> 



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