Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030308AbWASSbL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:31:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030314AbWASSbK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:31:10 -0500 Received: from 200-170-96-180.veloxmail.com.br ([200.170.96.180]:16266 "EHLO lolita-out.veloxmail.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030308AbWASSbJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:31:09 -0500 X-Authenticated-User: fredlwm@veloxmail.com.br X-Authenticated-User: fredlwm@veloxmail.com.br Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:31:03 -0200 (BRST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_L=2E_W=2E_Meunier?= <2@pervalidus.net> To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: create .kernelrelease at *config step Message-ID: X-Archive: encrypt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 803 Lines: 24 Is this expected ? $ cd /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 $ make O=/home/fredlwm/objdir/ oldconfig ... make -C /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 O=/home/fredlwm/objdir .kernelrelease Makefile:480: .config: No such file or directory .config is in /home/fredlwm/objdir .kernelrelease gets created in /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 . I thought nothing would be written to the sources directory. What if I were on a read-only filesystem ? I didn't try to build it. Are these harmless ? -- How to contact me - http://www.pervalidus.net/contact.html - 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/