From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756432AbZDOVat (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752855AbZDOVak (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:30:40 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48159 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751060AbZDOVak (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:30:40 -0400 Message-ID: <49E651A9.8030409@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:29:13 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Gregory Haskins , Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, henrix@sapo.pt Subject: Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount References: <49E500F6.8060401@novell.com> <49E501D4.6000605@oracle.com> <49E627AA.5080105@novell.com> <49E641D4.2000604@oracle.com> <49E64DE1.8070909@novell.com> <20090415212009.GA27597@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20090415212009.GA27597@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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