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

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Message-ID: <20090415212009.GA27597@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:20:09 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>, hpa@...or.com
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, henrix@...o.pt
Subject: Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

> 
> 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.

	Sam
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