linux-kernel - Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:29:13 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, henrix@...o.pt
Subject: Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> The problem seems to be that 30-rcX thinks that there are dependencies
>> to update (such as include/config/kernel.release and version.h.tmp)
>> during a make-install operation.  Since I am on a root-squashed NFS
>> mount, these files cannot be updated and thus the install fails. 
>> Previous trees prior to linux-current (at least up to 2.6.29) did not
>> try to update these files so the install would succeed.
> 
> It is because arch/x86/Makefile has
> a dependency on vmlinux for the install target.
> 
> I know hpa has had a fix for it but it is not applied.
> I recall there was a trivial bug in the first version.
> 

OK, do we have a consensus that this is desirable?  I was somewhat 
confused if it was desired or considered user error.

I'll clean up the patch and add it in the former case.

	-hpa

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