kexec 2.0.2 MIPS

[ANDY KENNEDY]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ANDY KENNEDY
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:03 AM
> To: 'Simon Horman'
> Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org; Matt Evans; Maxim Uvarov
> Subject: RE: kexec 2.0.2 MIPS
> 
> > $ git clone git://github.com/horms/kexec-tools.git
> > $ cd kexec-tools
> > $ git checkout 6adc05c6e3fdbc8b9f5d915af78ca05d0a09cb17^
> 
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `include/config.h.in'
> 
> Just to make sure I did this correctly:
> 
> # autoconf
> # CC=${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc LDFLAGS=-static ./configure
> <snip>
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `include/config.h.in'

RTFM ANDY!!!

Sorry, ./bootstrap works great ;)!!

> 
> >
> > Build and see if it works. If so could you then try?
> >
> > $ git checkout 6adc05c6e3fdbc8b9f5d915af78ca05d0a09cb17
> >
> > Build and see if it works. If it does not then
> > revision 6adc05c6e3fdbc8b9f5d915af78ca05d0a09cb17 starts to smell
> > a lot like the cause of the problem you have observed.
> >
> >
> > Git Bisect
> > ----------
> >
> > A git bisection works by doing a binary search over a set of
> > commits
> > in order to (hopefully) isolate which commit introduces a
> > regression.
> >
> > To this, the git commands are something along these lines:
> >
> > $ git clone git://github.com/horms/kexec-tools.git
> > $ cd kexec-tools
> > $ git checkout v2.0.1
> >
> > Build and confirm that it does work
> >
> > $ git checkout v2.0.2
> >
> > Build and confirm that it does not work.
> >
> > Now we actually start the bisect
> >
> > $ git bisect start
> > $ git bisect bad v2.0.2
> > $ git bisect good v2.0.1
> >
> > Git should now select a revision between v2.0.1 and v2.0.2
> > Test it and see if it works or not. If it does run
> >
> > $ git bisect good
> > If not run
> >
> > $ git bisect bad
> >
> > Git will now select another revision for you to test...
> >
> >
> >