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From: simon@himi.org (Simon Fowler)
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.5-bk]  'modules_install' failed to install modules
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:12:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040415051215.GC1472@himi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040414202554.GA12020@mars.ravnborg.org>

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:25:54PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > 
> > Make this the third.  I just saw it happen here too.
> > 'make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install' fails in the above way.
> > Doing a 'make' seems to work.
> 
> I think I tracked it down now.
> During 'make bzImage' the directory .tmp_versions was deleted and created.
> This is only supposed to happen when building modules.
> 
> This does not match your failure report 100%.
> I assume what you did was something like:
> 
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make install		<= This would trigger the above case
> make modules_install
> 
> Or maybe you inverted the two:
> make modules
> make bzImage
> 
> Anyway here is the fix.
> Please let me know if you still se problems.
> 
This patch fixed the problem for me - 'make install modules_install'
now does what it's supposed to do.

Simon

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-15  5:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-14 15:40 [2.6.5-bk] 'modules_install' failed to install modules walt
2004-04-14 16:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-04-14 16:43   ` Gene Heskett
2004-04-14 17:00   ` Dave Jones
2004-04-14 19:10     ` Gene Heskett
2004-04-14 20:25     ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-04-14 20:42       ` Dave Jones
2004-04-15  5:12       ` Simon Fowler [this message]
2004-04-15 14:55         ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-04-15  4:47     ` Simon Fowler

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