On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 05:04:39 PM -0400 Marcus Watts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
... but often, the problem is that the configure tests utterly failed
because configure was unable to install your kernel headers, perhaps
because you haven't actually installed them.
...
Having been just burned by variations on this exact problem,
I've now got:
/afs/umich.edu/user/m/d/mdw/build/tmp/,m20a
a diff which will fix the 2.6 kernel configuration process to:
/1/ log more useful information in config.log when the
kernel configuration process breaks -- the error message,
make command, the compiler lines, the module makefile, and
the c source for the test.
/2/ does a dry run of the kernel build process and errors out with
a more helpful message if this fails. If this breaks,
there is no point in doing further kernel configuration tests,
and better to tell the user what to do next.
This will be part of the rxk5 changes I'm working on, and I hope to
have even more improvements to work better with exotic kernel
configurations and uml. But I believe this diff is probably useful
as is right now.
With the caveat that I haven't actually reviewed this yet, I'd suggest
submitting it to openafs-bugs separately, so that it can be integrated
and make its way to stable releases more quickly than rxk5 probably will.
-- Jeff
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