Re: kbuild / KERNELRELEASE not rebuild correctly anymore

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Sunday 15 January 2006 11:05, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:51:14AM +0100, Ren? Rebe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > with at least 2.6.15-mm{2,3,4} untaring the kernel and running make
> > menuconfig (or most other favourite config tools) do not display a
> > version anymore since .kernelrelease it not build as dependecy.
> >
> > I only noticed this because my build scripts grab the version before the
> > build for later file names on installations and leave this string empty
> > after configuration of latest linux kernels.
>
> It is correct that "make kernelrelease" does not display correct info
> until you have done a proper build of the kernel or at least the prepare
> step.
>
> The issue here is that we shall avoid sideeffects when running "make
> kernelrelease" so it does not trigger all sorts of commands when running
> as root for instance.
>
> So the real fix is to error out when .kernelrelease does not exists.
> See attached patch.

You expect us to run make prepare before make menuconfig or simillar?
That sounds a bit odd ...

Yours,

-- 
René Rebe - Rubensstr. 64 - 12157 Berlin (Europe / Germany)
            http://www.exactcode.de | http://www.t2-project.org
            +49 (0)30  255 897 45
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/