Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:53:25 +0100 | | From | Rene Herman <> | | Subject | Re: 2.6.25-rc2 vdso_install breaks user "make install" | |
On 16-02-08 04:42, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Perhaps it makes more sense to have vdso_install be a dependency of
> modules_install rather than install, since they both put things in
> /lib/modules.
Would work for me -- modules_install ofcourse runs as root.
> The installed vdso images are potentially useful for a kernel when you
> aren't bothering to build or install any modules, but those images are
> only ever useful for sophisticated debugging uses anyway.
>
> Sam, any thoughts? (See arch/x86/Makefile and arch/powerpc/Makefile.)
Or maybe update the installkernel "protocol" to add these in?
> The only kind of install runs I actually care about are for packaging
> system builds. There the packaged build does 'make vdso_install'
> explicitly anyway (at least Fedora rpms' .spec does). So if the
> consensus is just to drop the dependency on vdso_install completely, I
> don't object.
Did that for now...
Rene.
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