Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932978AbaFKPYg (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:24:36 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47469 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932317AbaFKPYV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:24:21 -0400 Message-ID: <5398749B.4090209@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 08:24:11 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Lutomirski , Josh Boyer CC: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: vdso_install target broken post-3.15 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/11/2014 08:20 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Is vdso_install supposed to install a .so file or just a .so.dbg file? > I'm having trouble parsing this: > > quiet_cmd_vdso_install = INSTALL $@ > cmd_vdso_install = cp $(obj)/$@.dbg $(MODLIB)/vdso/$@ > $(vdso-install-y): %.so: $(obj)/%.so.dbg FORCE > @mkdir -p $(MODLIB)/vdso > $(call cmd,vdso_install) > > This seems like a rather complicated way of saying that the .so.dbg is > installed with the .dbg at the end removed. We can do that. Let me > see if I can disentangle the makefile enough. > That is, indeed, what it says. > If we need real stripped .so files, vdso2c knows how to generate them, > but the makefile doesn't invoke it like that. I don't see why we'd > want to install them, though. I don't think there is any point in that. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/