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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: Disable depmod in cross-compile kernel build
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:01:57AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
>
> When building embedded systems in a cross-compile environment and
> populating a target's file system image, we don't want to run the
> depmod on the host as we may be building for a completely different
> architecture. Since there's no such thing as a cross-depmod, we
> just disable running depmod in the cross-compile case and we just
> run depmod on the target at bootup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
> Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@mvista.com>

The root problem is depmod that should understand more targets.
But testing for CROSS_COMPILE is not good enough - we should
test is host target and buildtarget differs.

I took a look at it and came up with the attached patch.
This btw solves:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3881


Sam

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e8ace82..784903a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1030,19 +1030,12 @@ _modinst_:
fi
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst

-# If System.map exists, run depmod. This deliberately does not have a
-# dependency on System.map since that would run the dependency tree on
-# vmlinux. This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
+# This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
# boot a modules.dep even before / is mounted read-write. However the
# boot script depmod is the master version.
-ifeq "$(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH))" ""
-depmod_opts :=
-else
-depmod_opts := -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r
-endif
PHONY += _modinst_post
_modinst_post: _modinst_
- if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); fi
+ $(call cmd,depmod)

else # CONFIG_MODULES

@@ -1259,15 +1252,6 @@ _emodinst_:
$(Q)mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/$(install-dir)
$(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst

-# Run depmod only is we have System.map and depmod is executable
-quiet_cmd_depmod = DEPMOD $(KERNELRELEASE)
- cmd_depmod = if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then \
- $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map \
- $(if $(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)), \
- -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r) \
- $(KERNELRELEASE); \
- fi
-
PHONY += _emodinst_post
_emodinst_post: _emodinst_
$(call cmd,depmod)
@@ -1516,6 +1500,16 @@ quiet_cmd_rmdirs = $(if $(wildcard $(rm-dirs)),CLEAN $(wildcard $(rm-dirs)))
quiet_cmd_rmfiles = $(if $(wildcard $(rm-files)),CLEAN $(wildcard $(rm-files)))
cmd_rmfiles = rm -f $(rm-files)

+# Run depmod only is we have System.map and depmod is executable
+# and we build for the host arch
+quiet_cmd_depmod = DEPMOD $(KERNELRELEASE)
+ cmd_depmod = \
+ if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) -a "$(SUBARCH)" == "$(ARCH)" ]; then \
+ $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map \
+ $(if $(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)), -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r) \
+ $(KERNELRELEASE); \
+ fi
+

a_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) $(AFLAGS_KERNEL) \
$(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) \
-
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