Re: 3.4.0 wants to download Linux despite its presence

["Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]" <mad@wol.de>]

Am Freitag, den 22.05.2009, 02:11 -0700 schrieb Michael David Crawford:
> Patrick Colp wrote:
> > Doing make xen and make tools should be just fine (I do this regularly, 
> > as I don't want or need Linux to be constantly rebuilt and reinstalled 
> > when I'm only changing things to Xen and/or tools).
> 
> I don't know for sure, but I have the theory that "make world" will 
> build things that "make xen" and "make tools" don't, which will then 
> persist in being installed when later tools builds miss some things.
> 
> > Did you install them after building (make install-xen and make 
> > install-tools)? I think you need to be sudo for it to install properly.
> 
> I think I tried those just a couple times, but killed them when they 
> started to build the Linux kernel again.
> 
> I've been using install.sh, but that turns out not to check that all the 
> required files actually exist - it just installs whatever is in 
> dist/install, even if something is missing.
> 
> I have a "make world" going right now, and will do a "make install" when 
> that's done.  I decided to just let it build Linux, just so I can be 
> certain everything else builds.
> 
> Mike

Hello Mike,

just don't use "make world" as it includes a call to "make clean" which
will delete the included linux tree before the actual build and it will
dowload the linux tree again during the build phase. Use "make dist"
instead.

Marc