Re: CONFIG_KERNEL_XZ obscure build failure if xz(1) not installed

From: Pavel Vasilyev
Date: Wed Feb 09 2011 - 16:17:17 EST


09.02.2011 23:38, Andy Isaacson ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:07:32PM +0300, Pavel Vasilyev wrote:
>>> The failure is obscured by trailing make output, and since a broken
>>> bzImage is created, "make install" succeeds, and the first visible
> [snip]
>> :)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
>> index 17a5798..5ec9d36 100644
>> --- a/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
>> +++ b/scripts/xz_wrap.sh
>> @@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ case $ARCH in
>> sparc) BCJ=--sparc ;;
>> esac
>>
>> -exec xz --check=crc32 $BCJ --lzma2=$LZMA2OPTS,dict=32MiB
>> +exec xz --check=crc32 $BCJ --lzma2=$LZMA2OPTS,dict=32MiB || exit 1
>>
>
> I get the same behavior with and without your patch, tested with both
> bash and dash. (FWIW, /bin/sh on my systems is a symlink to /bin/dash.)
>

# mv /usr/bin/xz /
# rm arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin*
# rm arch/x86/boot/bzImage
# make
# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/generated/compile.h
CHK include/linux/version.h
make[2]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
XZKERN arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.xz
/media/kernel/linux-2.6/scripts/xz_wrap.sh: line 23: exec: xz: not found
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.xz] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

# make install
sh /media/kernel/linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/install.sh 2.6.38-rc4+
arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
System.map "/boot"

*** Missing file: arch/x86/boot/bzImage
*** You need to run "make" before "make install".

make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2



All work, without and with patch. :-/


# sh --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.9(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)


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Pavel.
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