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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, henrix@sapo.pt
Subject: Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:29:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E651A9.8030409@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415212009.GA27597@uranus.ravnborg.org>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-14 21:32 Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount Gregory Haskins
2009-04-14 21:36 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-15 18:30   ` Gregory Haskins
2009-04-15 20:21     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-04-15 21:13       ` Gregory Haskins
2009-04-15 21:20         ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-15 21:29           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-15 23:46             ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-17 17:51               ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-17 20:46               ` tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin

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