Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

["Michael Rühmann" <mosh@ruehmann-wf.de>]

Am 13.12.2013 21:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> Am 13.12.2013 20:21, schrieb Bruce Hill:
>> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:59:41PM +0100, hasufell wrote:
>>>>> The problem is now: How do i set CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE in menuconfig?
>>>>> Maybe i'm completely blind...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>>>> Mosh
>>>>>
>>>> lol, done!
>>>> As i thought...i was blind :D
>>>>
>>> You could at least say how you did it. *sigh*
>>>
>>> maybe even add the kernel part to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS
>> mingdao@baruch ~ $ zgrep CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE /proc/config.gz
>> CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
>>
>> What *is* so difficult about that?
> well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can
> reach that option in xconfig.
>
> On the other hand ZLIB_DEFLATE is turned on by a douzend of other
> options that it is VERY probable you never have to touch it.
>
exactly.. i couldn't find it in menuconfig.
The answer was to set CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEFLATE=y manually in .config.
After building the new kernel, CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE was pulled in and spl 
compiled without any problem.

There is nothing difficult about that :-)