Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:29:13PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

It is desireable - so please go ahead and fix the patch.

Thanks,
	Sam
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