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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:14:52 +1100
From: Michael Still <mikal@stillhq.com>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: Makefile dependancies: scripts depending on configured kernel?
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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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