From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>,
kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make: add modules_update target
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:02:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <443FF1D9.4060904@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145039347.3074.11.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 21:00 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> How about using rsync with --delete as a substitute for cp (if rsync is
>> available)?
>>
>
> I thought about this, but a "grep -r rsync" didn't turn up any previous
> hits in the kernel build process. I didn't want to introduce this as a
> new dependency for kernel building, if it's possible to avoid...
>
Use rsync only if it is available:
rsync-available := $(shell rsync --version > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo y)
copy := $(if $(rsync-available), rsync --delete, cp)
modules_install:
[...]
$(copy) source target
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-14 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-14 15:06 [PATCH] make: add modules_update target Kylene Jo Hall
2006-04-14 17:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-04-14 18:00 ` Avi Kivity
2006-04-14 18:29 ` Dustin Kirkland
2006-04-14 19:02 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2006-04-15 0:33 ` Dustin Kirkland
2006-04-15 0:33 ` Dustin Kirkland
2006-04-15 8:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-15 15:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-04-16 18:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
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