Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-09T00:56:13Z

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:10:19AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002 19:25:57 +0200,
> Alex Riesen <Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com> wrote:
> >i've found the reason: the make's stdin was redirected in /dev/null
> >(my make is aliased to a program prettifying output).
>
> Use standard make.

Wouldn't you call it a bug anyway if running
'make -f Makefile-2.5 oldconfig < /dev/null' went on to build a kernel?
That's pretty surprising behavior.

(Not saying that that does happen, but it's how I read Alex's message)

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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