Errors when building a kernel

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 05:08:03 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>Are you editing ".config" manually?

Yes ...

>if yes, why don't you use "make menuconfig" (or another config target)
>because there are dependencies that you can't account for when using
>vi/nano/emacs/whatever.

... OTOH if you get an error for /bar/staging/foo, you easily can find
CONFIG_FOO and "disable" it. If you use menuconfig instead it's not
that pleasant. Dependencies are seldom an issue (were never an issue,
IIRC I run into this issue for the first time).

>I run the rc kernels on my laptop and about a year decided to stop
>fiddling around with kernel configs so I use the Arch, Fedora, and
>Ubuntu configs in rotation for each rc series; and my kernels compile
>without a hitch.

I agree that "usually" there aren't issues, it's likely related to an
oldish kernel I try to build.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ uname -r
3.10.61-rt65-1-rt-lts

>(You're running "make oldconfig" twice in [1], not that it should
>really matter.)

It might be neurotic, but I like to verify, that really everything is
done after oldconfig run, that's why I run it a second time.

I already planed to use menuconfig next time, but I suspect it isn't
easy to find CONFIG_MPILIB.

I'm not sure if this will help when using menuconfig

http://ss-log.blogspot.de/
(at the bottom "GnuPG MPILIB", other links were less informatively)

it didn't help, when manually editing.