--On Monday, March 14, 2005 20:49:30 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:39:37AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: >> I'm having some intermittent build problems on 2.6.11-bk10. First of >> all, doing a 'make -j8 O=... install' errors out not being able to find >> a vmlinux: >> >> $ make O=../mhp-build/i386-plain/ -j8 install >> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `vmlinux', needed by >> `arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin'. Stop. >> make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 >> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 >> make: *** [install] Error 2 >> >> Also, I just ran menuconfig, changed an option, and did another 'make >> install', and it went straight to the install script with no >> compiling. >> >> Note that these are with O=, so it might be just a separate build tree >> problem. >> >> Any ideas? > > On popular request 'make install' no longer try to update vmlinux. > This is to avoid errornous recompilation when installing the kernel > as root especially when fetching kernel via nfs where path may have > changed. That's frigging annoying. It's worked that way for ages, and all our scripts assume it works. Andrew, can we back that out? M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
