From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762861AbXIKG2c (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:28:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966524AbXIKGXL (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:23:11 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:53570 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966579AbXIKGXJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:23:09 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sTpsDJGI1Mib2Un1I2VVQx6ysxjyqByXkmWZ5FmRCZES7R0AsnfIKVJwcyZDhvgXMctI+H/j8Vm8TsL1LUR+YRQ1bLvO+3cloVFk6pbkS7Q5R1J4m+3TBhKwOHapUPhmtVfMrFu/eNl5fc9KSP3m8CYvVwPVA/ColWOkwRs0AAk= Message-ID: <6bc632150709102323w57023977pb1c25e779458060e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:53:08 +0530 From: "pradeep singh rautela" To: "Sam Ravnborg" Subject: Re: [Q]Adding src files to 2.6.18 kernel and build failure query Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070911061952.GA3429@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6bc632150709100905y7c5c2camaa0044cf6fa09ea2@mail.gmail.com> <20070910163847.GA30699@uranus.ravnborg.org> <6bc632150709102247s3071c60jcddf8f88c8f2bc10@mail.gmail.com> <20070911061952.GA3429@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sam, found the commit in my fresh 2.6 git repo. Thanks a lot for help. Best Regards --pradeep On 9/11/07, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > 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 > -- -- pradeep singh rautela "question = ( to ) ? be : ! be;" -- Wm. Shakespeare