Re: [3.7-rc6] Build failure with scripts/Makefile.headersinst

[Tetsuo Handa]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:55:14PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > > Linux 3.6 builds fine. I can't use "git bisect" until Linux 3.7-rc6 but
> > > > possibly caused by either commit 10b63956 "UAPI: Plumb the UAPI Kbuilds
> > > > into the user header installation and checking" or commit 40f1d4c2 "UAPI:
> > > > Remove the objhdr-y export list".
> > > 
> > > Bisected to commit 10b63956 "UAPI: Plumb the UAPI Kbuilds into the user header
> > > installation and checking".
> > 
> > Indeed, but that doesn't help much.  The problem is that make's behaviour has
> > apparently changed.  I could do with Sam Ravnborg's help to work around this
> > since I think he's mainly responsible for the Makefile infrastructure.
> 
> Mical is the kbuild person these days.
> Anyway - it this still relevant?
> 
Yes, as of commit a7c1120d "Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4" in linux.git still
has this problem.

> I took a quick look and my suspect is the use of $(or ..),
> as this feature was added recently to make.
> 
> 	Sam
> 

Michal, this thread starts at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/17/71 .

Regards.
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