From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] linux-next: Tree for June 4 - firmware/keyspan/mpr.fw.gen.S Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:15:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1212657333.32207.178.camel@pmac.infradead.org> References: <20080604180025.3ecd03ff.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <48468091.5000102@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1212586717.32207.71.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20080605091319.GA17469@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:33475 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354AbYFEJPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 05:15:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080605091319.GA17469@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Kamalesh Babulal , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Andy Whitcroft 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