config(8) -x headscratcher

[Eric van Gyzen]

On 04/28/2013 12:09, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 04:40:58AM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Wojciech A. Koszek
>>>> <wkoszek at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:54:11PM +0300, Kimmo Paasiala wrote:
>>>>>> I'm getting a core dump on 'config -x /boot/kernel/kernel' on 9.1-RELEASE i386.
>>>>>>
>
> [..]
>
>>>> The kernel config file:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/j0J9NPCi
>>>>
>>>> My /etc/make.conf:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/HYudWCA9
>>>>
>>>> And /etc/src.conf:
>>>>
>>>> http://pastebin.com/ZAKq6ABT
>>>>
>>>> I'll see how I can make the kernel image available.
>>>>
>>>> -Kimmo
>>> The kernel file:
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/07mjk6j4ditbl9r/kernel
>>>
>>> -Kimmo
>> dmesg(8) output of the system:
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/hqjsak2n
> Kimmo,
>
> Thanks for the information. Can you try following patch:
>
> 	cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/config
> 	fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~wkoszek/patches/config-align.patch
> 	patch -p0 < config-align.patch
> 	make
>
> and see if it fixes your problem for all kernel images you're building?

If I'm reading correctly, the patch puts a NUL byte at the beginning of
the assertion message.

Eric