From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, henrix@sapo.pt
Subject: Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:20:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090415212009.GA27597@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E64DE1.8070909@novell.com>
>
> The problem seems to be that 30-rcX thinks that there are dependencies
> to update (such as include/config/kernel.release and version.h.tmp)
> during a make-install operation. Since I am on a root-squashed NFS
> mount, these files cannot be updated and thus the install fails.
> Previous trees prior to linux-current (at least up to 2.6.29) did not
> try to update these files so the install would succeed.
It is because arch/x86/Makefile has
a dependency on vmlinux for the install target.
I know hpa has had a fix for it but it is not applied.
I recall there was a trivial bug in the first version.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-15 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-14 21:32 Gregory Haskins
2009-04-14 21:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-15 18:30 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-04-15 20:21 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-15 21:13 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-04-15 21:20 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2009-04-15 21:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15 23:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-17 17:51 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-17 20:46 ` tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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