From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: Compiling a linux kernel from git Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:30:44 -0400 Message-ID: <87wogt8lsr.fsf@netris.org> References: <877e8v5ezu.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87pnmm9535.fsf@netris.org> <87h87y8pk6.fsf@netris.org> <87y31acosa.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hkGcl-0008Cs-TZ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:31:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkGck-0004uS-1q for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:31:15 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([64.112.178.59]:53236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hkGcj-0004uF-Ut for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2019 19:31:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87y31acosa.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Lemmer Webber's message of "Sun, 07 Jul 2019 03:00:21 -0400") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Christopher Lemmer Webber Cc: help-guix 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 definition. Happily this worked! > > Happy to say I'm on my way to the conference with a functioning laptop. I'm very glad to hear it! :) FYI, I filed a bug to discuss the underlying issue that led to this surprising breakage: Best, Mark