Re: [Q]Adding src files to 2.6.18 kernel and build failure query

["pradeep singh rautela" <rautelap@gmail.com>]

On 9/10/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> 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. ??

Thanks for the hint Sam.
--pradeep
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pradeep singh rautela

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