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SubjectRe: Broken "make install" in 2.6.14-git1
larry.finger@att.net (Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net) wrote:
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> The changes introduced the commit 596c96ba05e5d56e72451e02f93f4e15e17458df break the initrd building step of the "make install" process. The console output is as follows:

I'm unable to locate that commit, perhaps due to a local lack of gittiness.

Can you describe the patch less cryptically?

> >sudo make install
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> CHK include/linux/compile.h
> SKIPPED include/linux/compile.h
> CHK usr/initramfs_list
> Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready (#97)
> sh /home/finger/kernel/linux/arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.6.14-g596c96ba arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
> Root device: /dev/hda6 (mounted on / as reiserfs)
> Module list: via82cxxx processor thermal fan reiserfs
>
> Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-g596c96ba
> Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.14-g596c96ba
> Shared libs: lib/ld-2.3.5.so lib/libblkid.so.1.0 lib/libc-2.3.5.so lib/libselinux.so.1 lib/libuuid.so.1.2
> Driver modules: via82cxxx processor thermal fan reiserfs
> Filesystem modules:
> Including: klibc initramfs udev fsck.reiserfs
> Bootsplash: SuSE (1024x768)
> 8358 blocks
> no record for '/block/hdc/uevent' in database
> Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Bootloader/Tools.pm line 139.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/Bootloader/Tools.pm line 140.
> ......
>
> I used git bisect to localize the bad commit. I also observed that if the kernel created /sys/block/hdc/uevent, it failed. If this "file" does not exist, the install worked.

What does "it failed" mean? Is this the same bug, or a different one?
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