From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:44:38 +0100
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On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:53:34PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Well it doesn't build on x86-64 for me:
> > > > > 
> > > > >   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> > > > >   CC      arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o
> > > > > Assembler messages:
> > > > > Fatal error: can't create arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/.tmp_compat_binfmt_elf.o: No such file or directory
> > > > > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o] Error 2
> > > > > 
> > > > > I will post the .config if anyone is interested.
> > > > 
> > > > yes, please send the .config.
> > > 
> > > Attached.
> > > 
> > > It also may be relevant that I compile the kernel with "make O=../build".
> > 
> > I ran the compilation once again and it worked.  Strange.
> Try to delete your fs/ directory in your output dir.
> Then I expect the same bug to surface again.

It does surface indeed.

> I guess it is because arch/x86/ia32/ is built before fs/ and
> gcc cannot create directories for the output files and
> it is the dependency files that triggers the error as this
> is the first file to be generated.

I think you are right.

Greetings,
Rafael
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