Re: [GIT PULL (updated)] kbuild updates

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:11:01 +0200 Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:50:18PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 
> > The kbuild patches has been rebased on top of -linus after
> > the x86 merge.
> > The patch that caused ARCH to be unset has been withdrawn for
> > now. It had additional issues and I need to do additional changes
> > to get it included - in other words it will await next merge window.
> > 
> > The following patches does almost clear my patch queue. I have some
> > fixes pending but need some more time to check them out.
> > On top of this I have a few reports from -mm that needs attention too.
> > So in other words I expect a smaller set of patches for -rc1 or -rc2
> > as my time permits.
> > 
> > In addition to latest pull request this one includes:
> > - rename of
> > 	CFLAGS => KBUILD_CFLAGS
> > 	AFLAGS => KBUILD_AFLAGS
> > 	CPPFLAGS => KBUILD_CPPFLAGS
> >     rationale behind this was two-fold:
> >     1) Do not let the CFLAGS environment variable impact all builds
> >     2) Allow one to specify addition gcc options on the commandline
> >        as make CLFAGS=-Os ...
> > - introducing ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y as the future
> >   replacement of the EXTRA_* variants.
> > 
> > 
> > The majority (line wise) is update of generated files.
> > The rest is almost all one-liners so nothing controversial.
> > The file with most lines changed is makefiles.txt!
> > 
> 
> Bisecting shows that:
> 
> commit f77bf01425b11947eeb3b5b54685212c302741b8
> 	Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@neptun.(none)>
>  	Date:   Mon Oct 15 22:25:06 2007 +0200
> 
>     kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
> 
> breaks booting with grub here. Grub stops with error 28: 
> Selected item cannot fit into memory.
> 
> Reverting the commit fixes the problem.

Wow.  I had a similar issue with lilo, but I had no idea
what may have caused it.  Thanks.


Fatal: Kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23-git10 is too big
ERROR:  Failed to run lilo.


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~Randy