Re: 2.6.24.3 broke "make headers_install".

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Mar 16 2008 - 18:15:11 EST


On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:09:51 -0500 Rob Landley wrote:

> On Monday 10 March 2008 22:33:06 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:13:02AM +0900, Samuel Masham wrote:
> > > Hi Stable, Greg, all,
> > >
> > > Just a quick ping.
> > >
> > > Still not seeing these on the stable queue? Any issue or am i just
> > > looking in the wrong place:-
> > >
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
> >
> > You're looking in the right place, I'm just slow these days :)
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Speaking of the stable queue, I just tried 2.6.24.3 and "make headers_install"
> now dies with:
>
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target
> `/home/landley/firmware/firmware/build/temp-i686/linux/include/linux/if_addrlabel.h',
> needed by
> `/home/landley/firmware/firmware/build/cross-compiler-i686/include/linux/if_addrlabel.h'.
> Stop.
>
> I note that 2.6.24.2 didn't do that.
>
> The problem seems t be this hunk:
>
> diff -ru build.bak/sources/linux/include/linux/Kbuild
> build/sources/linux/includ
> e/linux/Kbuild
> --- build.bak/sources/linux/include/linux/Kbuild 2008-02-10
> 23:51:11.0000
> 00000 -0600
> +++ build/sources/linux/include/linux/Kbuild 2008-02-25
> 18:20:20.000000000 -0
> 600
> @@ -217,6 +217,7 @@
> unifdef-y += icmp.h
> unifdef-y += icmpv6.h
> unifdef-y += if_addr.h
> +unifdef-y += if_addrlabel.h
> unifdef-y += if_arp.h
> unifdef-y += if_bridge.h
> unifdef-y += if_ec.h
>
> The corresponding if_addrlabel.h file isn't in the 2.6.24.3 tarball, that I
> can find...

Yes, it's been reported a few times already and should be fixed/reverted
in the next stable release.

---
~Randy
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