Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1 | Date | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:44:12 +0100 |
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On Friday 24 October 2008 20:15:52 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:24:38PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Friday 24 October 2008 05:10:29 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > It's been two weeks, so it's time to close the merge window. A > > > 2.6.28-rc1 is out there, and it's hopefully all good. > > > > It seems if you have a broken asm/ symlink in include/ (which happened as > > a result of the x86 header moves, for me) the kernel won't try to update > > it appropriately, and this breaks "make prepare". > > > > $ make ARCH=x86_64 prepare > > CHK include/linux/version.h > > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > > GEN include/asm/asm-offsets.h > > /bin/sh: include/asm/asm-offsets.h: No such file or directory > > make[1]: *** [include/asm/asm-offsets.h] Error 1 > > make: *** [prepare0] Error 2 > > > > rm -f include/asm fixes it > > > > This was just from taking a 2.6.27 tree, git clean -d -f, git pull, make > > oldconfig. Might be a nice thing to fix? > > The following patch add another special case hwre we delete stale symlinks. > In my limited testing it fixes the issue - can you try to give it a spin.
Fixes it here, thanks.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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