I'm posting a patch... er.. snippit in a second that will make genkernel die immediately if the terminal size is too small for menuconfig and menuconfig is set as an option Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
ok.. This is more difficult that I thought it was, $COLUMNS and $ROWS dissapear from the system in that script.. and somebody at #bash told me to switch #!/bin/bash to #/bin/bash =ic but that didn't work also there was fun with "urnary operator" errors... can I use awk and stty to get this information?
#!/bin/bash ROWS=[ stty -a | grep rows | awk '{ print $5 }' | sed s/\;//; ] COLS=[ stty -a | grep rows | awk '{ print $7 }' | sed s/\;//; ] echo $ROWS echo $COLS produces some errors but rows and cols get assigned right!
*** Bug 41181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 25390 [details] new function that gets called early only if menuconfig is as option Sorry, I don't know how to make a diff yet... well...actually I overwrote the one that was there... but the new function is called check_term_size() and it is only called from config_kernel() once. This took a whole day to develop, and it isn't elegant... but it's simple enough, and it will keep the system from doing a superfelous make clean and make mrproper if it wasn't going to work anyway.
I just realized! It is now possible to redirect the output of make menuconfig to /dev/null.. so the whole thing will look way cleaner... it could look something like this: * ARCH: x86 * KERNEL VER: 2.6.3-rc2-gentoo * kernel: configuring source * kernel: running mrproper * kernel: using config from /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 -- prev backed up to .config.bak * kernel: running oldconfig * kernel: running clean * kernel: running menuconfig * kernel: skipping make dep for non 2.4 kernels * kernel: Starting compile of linux 2.6.3-rc2-gentoo bzImage ... one problem though, one will want to know if the kernel configuration was saved or not... so there should be an additional * kernel: config NOT saved or * kernel: config saved we would be skipping stuff like: HOSTCC scripts/fixdep SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c HOSTCC -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/checklist.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/inputbox.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/menubox.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/msgbox.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/textbox.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/util.o HOSTCC scripts/lxdialog/yesno.o HOSTLD scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig # # using defaults found in .config # Your kernel configuration changes were NOT saved.
that should be --no-menuconfig
gosh, no review... I guess resolved test-request was the wrong way to mark the bug.
bug 41328 incorperates this fix If you don't want to incorperate this (which I think is very important, because makeing clean without building the source aftwerwards can screw lots of things up (emerging glibc for example) and this prevents that... anyway, if this isn't liked, bug 41328 will probably be liked less, but there are too many bugs open *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41328 ***
slowly learning bugzilla..
This is implemented in genkernel-3.0.2_rc1. Thanks! Sidenote: It's much better to check it when the command line options are parsed rather than when a lot more has been run which takes a longer execution path so time is lost.
