Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-15T21:18:19Z

>
> 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.

Sam