Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:44:30 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: kbuild/all archs: Sanitize creating offsets.h |
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:59:18PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > When creating offsets.h from arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile we failed to check > all dependencies. A few key dependencies were listed - but a manually > edited list of include files are bound to be incomplete. > A few times I have tried building a kernel - which failed because > offsets.h needed to be updated but kbuild failed to do so. > I wonder what could happen with a kernel with an out-dated offsets.h > file with wrong assembler constants.
This fails:
rmk@dyn-67:[linux-2.6-rmk]:<1041> amake O=../build/rpc Using /home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk as source for kernel GEN /home/rmk/bk/build/rpc/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h UPD include/linux/version.h HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc GEN /home/rmk/bk/build/rpc/Makefile SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c HOSTCC -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/arm/Kconfig # # using defaults found in .config # SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/* /home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk/scripts/Makefile.build:13: /home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk/include/asm/Makefile: No such file or directory make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/home/rmk/bk/linux-2.6-rmk/include/asm/Makefile'. Stop. make[1]: *** [prepare0] Error 2 make: *** [_all] Error 2
../build/rpc only contained .version and .config
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