Re: [2.6.5-bk] 'modules_install' failed to install modules

From: Simon Fowler
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 00:13:17 EST


On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:25:54PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> > Make this the third. I just saw it happen here too.
> > 'make bzImage ; make modules ; make modules_install' fails in the above way.
> > Doing a 'make' seems to work.
>
> I think I tracked it down now.
> During 'make bzImage' the directory .tmp_versions was deleted and created.
> This is only supposed to happen when building modules.
>
> This does not match your failure report 100%.
> I assume what you did was something like:
>
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make install <= This would trigger the above case
> make modules_install
>
> Or maybe you inverted the two:
> make modules
> make bzImage
>
> Anyway here is the fix.
> Please let me know if you still se problems.
>
This patch fixed the problem for me - 'make install modules_install'
now does what it's supposed to do.

Simon

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