[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 3/3] core/pkg-kconfig: Use oldnoconfig when possible
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Apr 19 17:40:50 UTC 2016
Romain, All,
On 2016-04-19 11:11 +0200, Romain Izard spake thusly:
> 2016-04-18 23:08 GMT+02:00 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>:
> > Romain, All,
> >
> > On 2016-04-18 11:23 +0200, Romain Izard spake thusly:
> >
> >> +# The correct way to regenerate a .config file is to use 'make olddefconfig'.
> >> +# For historical reasons, the target name is 'oldnoconfig' between Linux kernel
> >> +# versions 2.6.36 and 3.6, and remains as an alias in later versions.
> >> +# In older versions, and in some other projects that use kconfig, the target is
> >> +# not supported at all, and we use 'yes "" | make oldconfig' as a fallback
> >> +# only, as this can fail in complex cases.
> >> +define $(2)_REGEN_DOT_CONFIG
> >> + $$(Q)$$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) oldnoconfig || \
> >> + (yes "" | $$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) oldconfig)
> >
> > What I don't much like here, is that we conflate two things:
> > - a non-zero return code because of a missing oldnoconfig,
> > - a non-zero return code because of an error found by olnoconfig.
> >
> > What I would have loved however, would be a way to detect whether
> > oldnoconfig (better, olddefconfig) was supported before calling it.
> > Maybe something along the lines of:
> >
> > if [ -n "`$$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) -pqn .DEFAULT 2>/dev/null |grep -E '^olddefconfig'`" ]; then \
> > $$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) olddefconfig || exit 1; \
> > elif [ -n "`$$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) -pqn .DEFAULT |grep -E '^oldnoconfig'`" ]; then \
> > $$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) oldnoconfig || exit 1; \
> > else
> > (yes "" | $$($(2)_KCONFIG_MAKE) oldconfig) || exit 1; \
> > fi
> >
> > Yes, this is more code, less compact, but it is more systematic. At
> > the very least, it would not fallback to the yes|oldconfig trick in
> > case old{def,no}config do exist but fail, which we do want to catch.
> >
> > BTW, the make trick above is highly (as in: almost identical) from the
> > bash-autocompletion package.
>
> I see the idea, but the specific implementation is not working: the
> kernel's Makefile targets are dynamic, and the targets we want to check
> are only present when the target we try to build matches %config.
I just checked, and it works on the current master on the kernel tree:
$ make -pqn .DEFAULT 2>/dev/null |grep -E '^olddefconfig:'
olddefconfig: scripts/kconfig/conf
$ make -pqn .DEFAULT 2>/dev/null |grep -E '^oldnoconfig:'
oldnoconfig: olddefconfig
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> I will try to find a syntax that works for all projects that use the
> kconfig-package infrastructure.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Romain Izard
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