Messages in this thread | | | From | Rudmer van Dijk <> | Subject | Re: build failure for 2.5.24-dj1 | Date | Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:16:47 +0200 |
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On Sunday 23 June 2002 14:37, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:43:32PM +0200, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > upon inspection I found that with 'make mrproper' > > drivers/char/defkeymap.c is removed which it did not do in earlier > > kernels. > > on my system 'loadkeys' is not installed because i did not have the kdb > > package installed (I did not need it). looking in Documentation/Changes > > of 2.5.24-dj1 I could not find any reference to kdb so I think it should > > be added in the list of neccesary software since it is now! > > > > Rudmer > > > > +o kdb 1.06 # loadkeys --version > > (i) It is a bug to regard drivers/char/defkeymap.c as a generated file. > Every now and then something is changed (sticky keys were added, etc) > and a new table can only be generated by a new loadkeys. > > So, the person who makes the change changes the kernel headers in his > own tree, recompiles loadkeys against these new headers, generates > the new defkeymap.c. This new defkeymap.c is distributed as part of > the kernel source. > > It will take a long time before the whole world has a new loadkeys, > so it is unreasonable to expect that everybody can generate defkeymap.c > when there have been changes.
then it is a bug that defkeymap.c is removed and must be (re)generated to get the kernel compiled.
the removal of defkeymap.c is added in 2.5.24 in toplevel Makefile to CLEAN_FILES and the file itself is also removed by applying the patch.
Rudmer
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