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Date:	Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:53:25 +0100
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2 vdso_install breaks user "make install"

On 16-02-08 04:42, Roland McGrath wrote:

> Perhaps it makes more sense to have vdso_install be a dependency of 
> modules_install rather than install, since they both put things in
> /lib/modules.

Would work for me -- modules_install ofcourse runs as root.

> The installed vdso images are potentially useful for a kernel when you 
> aren't bothering to build or install any modules, but those images are
> only ever useful for sophisticated debugging uses anyway.
> 
> Sam, any thoughts?  (See arch/x86/Makefile and arch/powerpc/Makefile.)

Or maybe update the installkernel "protocol" to add these in?

> The only kind of install runs I actually care about are for packaging 
> system builds.  There the packaged build does 'make vdso_install' 
> explicitly anyway (at least Fedora rpms' .spec does).  So if the
> consensus is just to drop the dependency on vdso_install completely, I
> don't object.

Did that for now...

Rene.
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