Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Chris, Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Thanks! I got things working by going the tarball route, though > slightly more indirectly than the approach you suggested here. What I > did was get the latest release-candidate tarball and list the patches I > specifically needed in the package

Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-07 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Chris, > > I wrote earlier: >> My first guess is that '/gnu/store/…-linux-next-…-checkout/include' >> should not be in the C include path while compiling that file, but that >> it's getting added. The difference might be due to the fact that the >> 'source' in this

Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Chris, I wrote earlier: > My first guess is that '/gnu/store/…-linux-next-…-checkout/include' > should not be in the C include path while compiling that file, but that > it's getting added. The difference might be due to the fact that the > 'source' in this case is a directory instead of a

Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: (add-before 'configure 'fix-CPATH (lambda _;; Temporary hack to remove -checkout/include which breaksthings. ;; Why is this not necessary when building in a‘guix environment’ ;; and in the Guix linux-libre package?Git-checkout-related? (setenv

Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Chris, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: Anyone more familiar with the linux build process who can give me some tips? Especially since I board a plane very early tomorrow morning :) My own kernel package has nothing left in common with linux-libre, but it does build from git and has this

Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Chris, Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Unfortunately my laptop was failing and I needed to pick up a new one > asap before a conference I leave for tomorrow morning, so I bought one > off the shelf from a retail store. Also unfortunately, while the > hardware is supported in upstream

Compiling a linux kernel from git

2019-07-06 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Hello, Unfortunately my laptop was failing and I needed to pick up a new one asap before a conference I leave for tomorrow morning, so I bought one off the shelf from a retail store. Also unfortunately, while the hardware is supported in upstream linux, it isn't in any of the released tarballs