Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: disable building kernel subsystem by default.

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:02:44PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 14:36 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > On 30.05.13 13:22, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: disable building kernel 
> > > subsystem by default."):
> > >> This support is obsolete and harks back to the days of out of tree Linux
> > >> kernel trees.
> > > ...
> > >> As well as George's release Ack this needs confirmation from Ian J that 
> > >> it
> > >> isn't going to confuse the test system.
> > > 
> > > This will break the test system's build of the ancient 2.6.18 kernels.
> > > Everything else will be fine.  How about I just drop those ?
> > 
> > The purpose of my original patch was to prevent 2.6.18 kernel to be
> > build on non-Linux platforms.
> 
> But the 2.6.18 kernel isn't built by default even on Linux, so why on
> earth are you seeing it on NetBSD?
> 
> What build target(s) do you use? AFAICT the only one which should cause
> any Linux kernel to be built in the default case is "make linux26". None
> of dist or world etc should be building a kernel unless you've set
> something in Config.mk or .config or edited something under config/*.mk.
> 

iirc "make world" builds kernels.. 

-- Pasi


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