Re: [PATCH] kbuild: create .kernelrelease at *config step

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:31:03PM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> Is this expected ?
> 
> $ cd /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16
> $ make O=/home/fredlwm/objdir/ oldconfig
> ...
> make -C /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 O=/home/fredlwm/objdir 
> .kernelrelease
> Makefile:480: .config: No such file or directory
> 
> .config is in /home/fredlwm/objdir
> 
> .kernelrelease gets created in 
> /usr/local/src/kernel/linux-2.6.16 . I thought nothing would be 
> written to the sources directory. What if I were on a read-only 
> filesystem ?
> 
> I didn't try to build it. Are these harmless ?

This is a bug, I will post a simple patch shortly to fix it.

	Sam
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