Re: [2.6.16rc2] compile error

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 February 2006 15:04, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >You are hit be an outstanding issue with -rc1 + rc2.
>> >When you build as root you will alter /dev/null and in your case it
>> >became a regular file.
>>
>> That didn't hit me Sam, and I built it as root, running it right
>> now.
>
>First you need to do make clean or make menuconfig to trigger
> theerror. Second, not all /dev/null are affected. On my gentoo box it
> does not fail.

My buildit26 script does a make oldconfig at the end of the tree build. 
Then my makeit script is run after I've run a make xconfig to dbl check 
the config, so menuconfig never gets involved 99.9% of the time.  
Anyway, its still running, and the log looks 100% normal so far.

> Sam

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