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.
Do any of the scripts actually depend on a configured kernel to build?
How can I verify that none of them need a configured kernel? Commenting
out the dependancy didn't break anything.
Thanks,
Mikal
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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.
Sam
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 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.
True.
> Trivial - so I will include this in some other kbuild patch
> I'm preparing.
Cool, it will be nice to have this working out of the box again.
> 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.
Interesting. I built most of the targets and they still worked. I'm
happy to accept that it's needed though.
Cheers,
Mikal
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