Greets list;
I, like many, use a couple of scripts to build new kernels. I'd
characterize myself as knowing just enough C to be dangerous, only
having used it since the early 80's, but the years on the grey matter
also effect that, 68 of those.
One of the 'features' of my buildit script is to mv the old base tree
out of the way when I'm unpacking another copy of it to be used as
the new tree. That way I can revert by mv'ing it back if the new one
fubars somehow.
However, after using it to make a 2.4.22-pre3, then my 'makeit' script
has a 100% failure while making modules. Something is refering back
to the running kernels /lib/modules/version/kernel/build directory,
where 'build' is a link back to the source tree of the running
kernel. Which is of course an invalid link if that tree has been
renamed.
This doesn't seem too kosher to me as the running kernel probably
should have exactly zip to do with the one under construction.
I've managed to fix it by mv'ing the original kernels src tree back to
its original name once the unpacked new tree has been mv'd to the
patchname in my buildit script. So I'm running 2.4.22-pre3 now.
The question is: why should I have to do that? Why should the kernel
under construction, in this case 2.4.22-pre3, care about or need
whats in the 2.4.21/.config file? That was the reference that leads
to the compilers eventual demise.
If it matters, system is the Athlon below, RH8.0, most updates
applied.
-- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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