Re: kbuild-2.5 on 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 build error when modular support turned off

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 22:03:37 EST


On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:48:53 -0700,
"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net> wrote:
>I had a kernel built and working fine with module support turned on, only a
>single driver (ide-floppy) compiled as a module. I then did "make -f
>Makefile-2.5 menuconfig" and turned off loadable module support, kmod and
>double-checked that ide-floppy changed to built-in (it did).
>
>I then did "make -f Makefile-2.5 -j2 installable", and kbuild rebuilt very
>little, and the final link died with failed references to "request_module".
>It appears that kbuild did not rebuild the entire kernel, even though would
>have been necessary.

It is a bug in standardizing dependency names when using common source
and object trees, I will correct it and roll core-18 this afternoon.
Separate source and object work fine for this case.

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