Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:56:17 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Makefile dependancies: scripts depending on configured kernel? |
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 09:16:07AM +1100, Michael Still wrote: > > Hey, > > the top level Makefile specifies that the scripts depend on the kernel > being configured before the scripts can be built: > > scripts: scripts_basic include/config/MARKER > $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(@) > > I think that this is probably a problem, because it means people can't > build any of the documentation targets without having configured the kernel.
The dependency for docs is (now) wrong. It should be: # Documentation targets # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- %docs: scripts_basic FORCE $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=Documentation/DocBook $@
docproc is the only binary used by Documentation/Docbook, and it is already placed in scripts_basic.
Trivial - so I will include this in some other kbuild patch I'm preparing.
> Do any of the scripts actually depend on a configured kernel to build? Yes, several of the ninaries do so. Among others empty.o.
> How can I verify that none of them need a configured kernel? Commenting > out the dependancy didn't break anything. Test a bit more, and you will see they are indeed needed. Note, some archs other than i386 have a bit different requirements because thay do not use an asm-offsett.h file.
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