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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/1] Add explicit error for missing CONFIG_ASN1
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On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 11:54 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 9/22/20 8:53 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I recently ran into this as an error from 0day. On x86 it's pretty
> > much impossible to build a configuration where CONFIG_ASN1 isn't
> > set, so you rarely notice a problem using the ASN.1 compiler
> > because something else has selected it. However, this compiler is
> > never built if CONFIG_ASN1 isn't set and the error you get from
> > kbuild is particularly unhelpful:
> >
> > make[4]: *** No rule to make target 'security/keys/trusted-
> > keys/tpm2key.asn1.o', needed by 'security/keys/trusted-keys/built-
> > in.a'.
> > make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:283: security/keys/trusted-
> > keys/trusted_tpm2.o] Error 1
> > make[4]: Target '__build' not remade because of errors.
> >
> > This patch changes the above error to the much easier to diagnose:
> >
> > scripts/Makefile.build:387: *** CONFIG_ASN1 must be defined for
> > the asn1_compiler. Stop.
> > make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:505: security/keys/trusted-
> > keys] Error 2
> >
> > James
> >
> > ---
> >
> > James Bottomley (1):
> > Makefile.build: Add an explicit error for missing ASN.1 compiler
> >
> > scripts/Makefile.build | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> Is there a missing
> select ASN1
> somewhere?

You mean in the build used to produce the errors above? Yes, so the
patch is to make the problem more explicit.

James


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