Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 06:25:11 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Christian Hesse <mail@earthworm.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: build system: no module target ending with slash?
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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:43:43AM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hi James, hi everybody,
> 
> playing with iwlwifi I try to patch it into the kernel and to build it from 
> there. But I have a problem with the build system.
> 
> The file drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/Makefile contains one single line:
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_IWLWIFI)   += iwlwifi/
> 
> When CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m in scripts/Makefile.lib line 29 the target is filtered 
> as it ends with a slash. That results in 
> drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/built-in.o not being built and the build 
> process breaks with an error. What is the correct way to handle this? Why are 
> targets ending with a slash filtered?

Looks buggy. I will take a look tonight.

	Sam
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