From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762353AbXIKG1e (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:27:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966151AbXIKGSb (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:18:31 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:51802 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966382AbXIKGS3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:18:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:19:52 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: pradeep singh rautela Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Q]Adding src files to 2.6.18 kernel and build failure query Message-ID: <20070911061952.GA3429@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <6bc632150709100905y7c5c2camaa0044cf6fa09ea2@mail.gmail.com> <20070910163847.GA30699@uranus.ravnborg.org> <6bc632150709102247s3071c60jcddf8f88c8f2bc10@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6bc632150709102247s3071c60jcddf8f88c8f2bc10@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:17:48AM +0530, pradeep singh rautela wrote: > On 9/10/07, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > [...] > > > I added some .c files to a new dir under net/foo/ . > > > Added corresponding .h files to a new dir under include/foo/ > > > > > > Create a Kconfig and Makefile in net/foo/ directory. > > > Added corresponding entries to Makefile and Kconfig in the net/ dir. > > > > > > I happily executed a make with a beaming face after selecting the foo > > > option after doing a > > > $make menuconfig. > > > > > > To my surprise i got this error :- > > > > > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds', > > > needed by `__build'. Stop > > > > Did the kernel build before you started adding your stuff? > > It looks like you broke something non-obvious when adding your stuff since the > > above failure should not happen just by adding a new directory under net/ > > Went home and tried again. It builds fine in git repo, but again > whenever i make an archive using git-archive --format=tar > --prefix=linux-2.6.18/ HEAD | bzip2 > linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 , i get the > problem with this bzipped tree. > > I removed .gitignore file from the my git repo and added manually > rules to .git/info/exclude instead. This did the trick and > git-archiv'ing did not result in a broken bzipped tree. > > Perhaps i did something silly or may be something to do with git. ?? You where hit by a problem in the top-level .gitignore. See commit: eaf729c8a8bfc9c7a5ff5659e3b2584bf2ef22e1 Use: git show eaf729c8a8bfc9c7a5ff5659e3b2584bf2ef22e1 This commit is most likely not in your tree. It just do: diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 8d15830..a232295 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ tags TAGS vmlinux* +!vmlinux.lds.S System.map Module.symvers Sam