Re: [PATCH] x86,build: Fix make -jN modules_install install

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:41:57PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Every few months, I forget why I type:
>>
>> $ sudo make -j12 modules_install && sudo make -j12 install
>>
>> instead of just:
>>
>> $ sudo make -j12 modules_install install
>>
>> I try the latter, it appears to work, and then my machine won't boot
>> because dracut got confused.  This fixes it once and for all: if you
>> ask make to install modules and a kernel, you almost certainly want
>> the modules installed *first* so that your initramfs scripts can
>> find the modules.
>
> Is this problem x86 specific?

I don't know.  But I also don't want to have 'make modules_install
install' on an arch without an install target appear to work, so I
don't know how to do it in the kbuild core.  That is, I don't want to
define an install target; I just want to add a dependency if the
target is already there.

Also, this patch has a repeated ifneq.  I'll fix it in v2.

>
>         Sam



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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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