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SubjectRe: PPC uImage build not reporting correctly
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> Sam,
>
> Tom pointed me at you to look at a makefile issue with
> arch/ppc/boot/images/Makefile. When I do the following:
>
> $ make uImage
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> make[1]: `arch/ppc/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
> CHK include/linux/compile.h
> CHK usr/initramfs_list
> UIMAGE arch/ppc/boot/images/uImage
> Image Name: Linux-2.6.12-rc3
> Created: Fri May 6 10:19:28 2005
> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> Data Size: 993322 Bytes = 970.04 kB = 0.95 MB
> Load Address: 0x00000000
> Entry Point: 0x00000000
> Image: arch/ppc/boot/images/uImage not made
>
> The issue is that the file arch/ppc/boot/images/uImage does exit (the
> 'not made' is not correct).
>
> $(obj)/uImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz
> $(Q)rm -f $@
> $(call if_changed,uimage)
> @echo ' Image: $@' $(if $(wildcard $@),'is ready','not made')
>
> It seems the $(wildcard $@) expands at the start of the rule. Any
> ideas?

It probarly uses the build-in cache in make - and I see no easy way to
tell make not to use the cache in this case.
Could you try to replace "$(wildcard $@)" with something like:
$(shell if -f $@ echo Y; fi)

Untested - I'm not on a Linux box right now.

Sam


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