Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] linux-next: Tree for June 4 - firmware/keyspan/mpr.fw.gen.S

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:13 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:38:37PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:16 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > > Hi Stephen,
> > > 
> > > The next-20080604 kernel build fails on the x86_64 machine
> > > 
> > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/autobench/autotest/tmp/build/linux/$(dir)', needed by `firmware/keyspan/mpr.fw.gen.S'.  Stop.
> > > make: *** [firmware] Error 2
> > 
> > Does this 'fix' it?
> 
> The correct fix is to get rid of make 3.81 features.
> We do want the kernel buildable with make 3.79 and we have today only two
> places where we do need a newer version of make:
> 
> 	scripts/Makefile.headerinst
> and now
> 	firmware/Makefile
> 
> Both places should be reworked to avoid this dependency.
> I plan to take care of Makfile.headerinst soonish in an attempt
> to speed up the checking process (has been on my TODO list for a long time),
> 
> And we should not introuduce the below make 3.81 specific feature.
> I have not looked into alternative - sorry.

I've committed an alternative for firmware/Makefile.
What's the problem in Makefile.headersinst?

-- 
dwmw2