Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-15T21:30:49Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> The problem seems to be that 30-rcX thinks that there are dependencies
>> to update (such as include/config/kernel.release and version.h.tmp)
>> during a make-install operation. Since I am on a root-squashed NFS
>> mount, these files cannot be updated and thus the install fails.
>> Previous trees prior to linux-current (at least up to 2.6.29) did not
>> try to update these files so the install would succeed.
>
> It is because arch/x86/Makefile has
> a dependency on vmlinux for the install target.
>
> I know hpa has had a fix for it but it is not applied.
> I recall there was a trivial bug in the first version.
>

OK, do we have a consensus that this is desirable? I was somewhat
confused if it was desired or considered user error.

I'll clean up the patch and add it in the former case.

-hpa