Re: [Ltib] patchmerge problems with newer Linux kernels

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Peter,

Yes LINTARCH would be better.  The difference is that LINTARCH is the
kernel's idea of the ARCH rather than the GNU version.  In older days we
had ppc in the kernel and powerpc for GNU (configure).

I'll go ahead and apply you patch but with LINTARCH

Regards, Stuart

Peter Barada wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:23 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> This looks like a good change to make.  The only question I have is
>> whether this may break on older kernels, I can't see why it should?
>> have you tried this on an older kernel?  If so I will apply.
> 
> Yes, I've tried it on a 2.6.28-rc8 kernel with no problems.  But looking
> over dist/lfs-5.1/kernel/kernel-common.tmpl, I see it uses LINTARCH
> instead of GNUTARCH for the kernel arch directory specifier.  I think
> the patch should use $pcf->{LINTARCH} instead of $pcf->{GNUTARCH}.
> 
> What's the difference between LINTARCH and GNUTARCH in LTIB?
> 
>> Thanks, Stuart
>>
>> Peter Barada wrote:
>>> Stuart,
>>>
>>> Somewhere around kernel version 2.6.32, the "make distclean" command
>>> used in f_patchmerge() doesn't clean out generated files in the
>>> appropriate arch directory which requires hand editing the patch to
>>> clean them up.
>>>
>>> In the f_patchmerge() subroutine, I've tried modifying the "make
>>> distclean" to be:
>>>
>>> if [ "$tok->{name}" = "kernel" -a -n "$pcf->{GNUTARCH}" ]; then
>>>         make ARCH=$pcf->{GNUTARCH} distclean
>>> else
>>>         make distclean
>>> fi
>>>   
>>> with good results:
>>>
>>> + cd 
>>> /home/peter/work/logic/eps_svn/software/products/linux/LTIB/trunk/ltib-20091102-omap3logic.32/rpm/BUILD/linux-2.6.32.modified
>>> + '[' kernel = kernel -a -n arm ']'
>>> + make ARCH=arm distclean
>>>   
>>>
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