Re: make-kpkg

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,

	You do not give the kernel version number, so I can't tell
 whether or not you are running into the problem with sed and kernel
 config scripts ...

	I'm including an excerpt from /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz 	


	manoj

======================================================================

 This is an (incomplete) list of problems that people have encountered
 in the past while using kernel-package. Please remember to configure
 the kernel for your machine using make menuconfig, and to clean the
 source tree before compiling a new image using make-kpkg clean.

[munch]

  d) make-kpkg goes into an infinite loop when trying to make oldconfig.

    This is _not_ a bug with kernel-package, it is a well known
    incompatibility between the new version of sed (which has suddenly
    become POSIX compliant) and the kernel sources (which did not expect
    sed to behave this way).

    The fix is to apply the following patch to the kernel sources. 


--- scripts/Configure.dist	Mon Jan 20 14:43:24 1997
+++ scripts/Configure	Tue Jan 21 05:41:30 1997
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
 	def=${old:-$3}
 	while :; do
 	  readln "$1 ($2) [$def] " "$def" "$old"
-	  if expr "$ans" : '0$\|-?[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
+	  if expr "$ans" : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
 	    define_int "$2" "$ans"
 	    break
 	  else
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
 	while :; do
 	  readln "$1 ($2) [$def] " "$def" "$old"
 	  ans=${ans#*[x,X]}
-	 if expr "$ans" : '[0-9a-fA-F]+$' > /dev/null; then
+	 if expr "$ans" : '[0-9a-fA-F]\+$' > /dev/null; then
 	   define_hex "$2" "$ans"
 	   break
 	 else

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Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>