Re: 2.6.23-mm1

Al Viro
2007-10-12T06:47:37Z

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:42:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:03:28 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:31:26 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23/2.6.23-mm1/
> > >
> > > - I've been largely avoiding applying anything since rc8-mm2 in an attempt
> > > to stabilise things for the 2.6.23 merge.
> > >
> > On RHEL5/x86_64 environment,
> >
> > ==
> > [kamezawa@hannibal ref-2.6.23-mm1]$ make menuconfig
> > Makefile:456: /home/kamezawa/ref-2.6.23-mm1/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
> > make: *** No rule to make target `/home/kamezawa/ref-2.6.23-mm1/arch//Makefile'. Stop.
> > ==
> >
> > $(ARCH) cannot be detected automatically...
>
> So you need to set $ARCH by hand? I always do that so I didn't notice this.
>
> > What information is useful for fixing this ?
>
> Sam's email address ;)

More serious breakage happened to UML - include/asm-um/arch went straight
to hell; I'll look into fixing that tomorrow...