Re: kbuild: error with parallel make and modules

From: Beat Bolli (bbolli@ymail.ch)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 18:09:17 EST


On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:43:25AM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Beat Bolli wrote:
>
> > It seems like scripts/Makefile.modpost starts before vmlinux has finished linking.
>
> Right, that's because for the non modversions case, I don't want to force
> people to build a vmlinux first when they only want modules. So I'm using
> vmlinux if it's there, otherwise not. That goes wrong when vmlinux is just
> being built ;-(
>
> This should fix it - could you test it?
>
> --Kai
>
> ===== Makefile 1.378 vs edited =====
> --- 1.378/Makefile Sun Feb 16 09:18:01 2003
> +++ edited/Makefile Tue Feb 18 11:37:19 2003
> @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@
> # Build modules
>
> .PHONY: modules
> -modules: $(SUBDIRS) $(if $(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS),vmlinux)
> +modules: $(SUBDIRS) $(if $(KBUILD_BUILTIN),vmlinux)
> @echo ' Building modules, stage 2.';
> $(Q)$(MAKE) -rR -f scripts/Makefile.modpost
>

OK, that did it. Now the link step finished before modpost is called.

Thanks!

Beat Bolli

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