From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Makefile asking for mrproper on new checkout with KBUILD_OUTPUT
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:43:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C19E01F.2010403@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C194AB2.7050707@panasas.com>
On 17.6.2010 00:05, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
> I get this problem: When a few Header files are changed, like when doing
> a git checkout the Makefile is complaining about mrproper needed.
>
> Now I'm building a:
> make ARCH=arch KBUILD_OUTPUT=.build_arch/
>
> But a:
> make ARCH=arch KBUILD_OUTPUT=.build_arch/ mrproper
>
> Will not help. What the Makefile wants is a:
> make mrproper
>
> doing the "make mrproper" does solves it.
> It used to be fine, I'm not sure when it started to break.
>
> How can I debug this to see what is the offending files?
The makefile errors out if the source directory is configured (*),
because having random object files in the source directory would confuse
the VPATH build.
(*) Means: either .config or include/config exists
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-17 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-16 22:05 Makefile asking for mrproper on new checkout with KBUILD_OUTPUT Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-17 8:43 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2010-06-17 15:45 ` Boaz Harrosh
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