Re: 2.6.18-rc1 build error (YACC): followup

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Jul 07 2006 - 16:35:35 EST


On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 03:24:42PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I wrote:
> >$YACC now seems to be undefined when I do a "make bzImage" and the
> >build process gets to drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm (with the aic7xxx
> >driver configured as a built-in). As a workaround, it's possible to
> >"cd" into the indicated directory and run "make" directly. Once the
> >default build completes, restarting "make bzImage" from the kernel
> >source root continues as expected.
>
> Found it. The main "Makefile" has "MAKEFLAGS += -rR" uncommented as
> of 2.6.18-rc1. The deleted comment about "possibly random breakage"
> that used to be just above that line pretty much says it all :-).
Translated: aic7xxx must supply its own definition of YACC or we should
put it in the top-level Makefile.

kbuild no longer rely on the predefined variables in make.

Sam
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