Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:34:30 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       kai@germaschewski.name
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-bk10 build problems
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--On Monday, March 14, 2005 20:49:30 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:39:37AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> I'm having some intermittent build problems on 2.6.11-bk10.  First of
>> all, doing a 'make -j8 O=... install' errors out not being able to find
>> a vmlinux:
>> 
>> $ make O=../mhp-build/i386-plain/ -j8 install
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `vmlinux', needed by
>> `arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: *** [arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>> 
>> Also, I just ran menuconfig, changed an option, and did another 'make
>> install', and it went straight to the install script with no
>> compiling.  
>> 
>> Note that these are with O=, so it might be just a separate build tree
>> problem.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> On popular request 'make install' no longer try to update vmlinux.
> This is to avoid errornous recompilation when installing the kernel
> as root especially when fetching kernel via nfs where path may have
> changed.

That's frigging annoying. It's worked that way for ages, and all our
scripts assume it works. 

Andrew, can we back that out?

M.
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