Re: [2.6.5-bk] 'modules_install' failed to install modules

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Make this the third.  I just saw it happen here too.
> 'make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install' fails in the above way.
> Doing a 'make' seems to work.

I think I tracked it down now.
During 'make bzImage' the directory .tmp_versions was deleted and created.
This is only supposed to happen when building modules.

This does not match your failure report 100%.
I assume what you did was something like:

make bzImage
make modules
make install		<= This would trigger the above case
make modules_install

Or maybe you inverted the two:
make modules
make bzImage

Anyway here is the fix.
Please let me know if you still se problems.

	Sam


===== Makefile 1.478 vs edited =====
--- 1.478/Makefile	Tue Apr 13 17:46:49 2004
+++ edited/Makefile	Wed Apr 14 22:19:26 2004
@@ -624,8 +624,10 @@
 endif
 
 prepare0: prepare1 include/linux/version.h include/asm include/config/MARKER
+ifneq ($(KBUILD_MODULES),)
 	$(Q)rm -rf $(MODVERDIR)
-	$(if $(CONFIG_MODULES),$(Q)mkdir -p $(MODVERDIR))
+	$(Q)mkdir -p $(MODVERDIR)
+endif
 
 # All the preparing..
 prepare-all: prepare0 prepare