Re: [Q]Adding src files to 2.6.18 kernel and build failure query

[pradeep singh rautela]

Hi Sam,

found the commit in my fresh 2.6 git repo.
Thanks a lot for help.

Best Regards
--pradeep
On 9/11/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:17:48AM +0530, pradeep singh rautela wrote:
> > On 9/10/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > I added some .c files to a new dir under net/foo/ .
> > > > Added corresponding .h files to a new dir under include/foo/
> > > >
> > > > Create a Kconfig and Makefile in net/foo/ directory.
> > > > Added corresponding entries to Makefile and Kconfig in the net/ dir.
> > > >
> > > > I happily executed a make with a beaming face after selecting the foo
> > > > option after doing a
> > > > $make menuconfig.
> > > >
> > > > To my surprise i got this error :-
> > > >
> > > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds',
> > > > needed by `__build'.  Stop
> > >
> > > Did the kernel build before you started adding your stuff?
> > > It looks like you broke something non-obvious when adding your stuff since the
> > > above failure should not happen just by adding a new directory under net/
> >
> > Went home and tried again. It builds fine in git repo, but again
> > whenever i make an archive using git-archive --format=tar
> > --prefix=linux-2.6.18/ HEAD | bzip2 > linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 , i get the
> > problem with this bzipped tree.
> >
> > I removed .gitignore file from the my git repo and added manually
> > rules to .git/info/exclude instead. This did the trick and
> > git-archiv'ing did not result in a broken bzipped tree.
> >
> > Perhaps i did something silly or may be something to do with git. ??
>
> You where hit by a problem in the top-level .gitignore.
> See commit: eaf729c8a8bfc9c7a5ff5659e3b2584bf2ef22e1
>
> Use: git show eaf729c8a8bfc9c7a5ff5659e3b2584bf2ef22e1
>
> This commit is most likely not in your tree.
> It just do:
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 8d15830..a232295 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>  tags
>  TAGS
>  vmlinux*
> +!vmlinux.lds.S
>  System.map
>  Module.symvers
>
>
>         Sam
>


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pradeep singh rautela

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