Re: 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 klibc build misbehavior

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 18:25:11 EST


On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:58:14PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006 23:29:51 +0200, Sam Ravnborg said:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:29:59PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> > > >>Why does touching scripts/mod/modpost.c end up rebuilding all of klibc?
>
> > Please post output of make V=1 after touching modpost.c
>
> Blarg. Now it won't do it. Checking back, it looks like I managed to
> get the ownership/permissions trashed while I was debugging the
> modpost.c bug - looks like a 'make modules_install' rebuilt some stuff
> as root it shouldn't have, so the next build as non-root was unable to
> write some file and that scrogged the build...
>
> Chalk this one up as collateral damage while debugging a real bug. :)
OK, thanks for reporting back on this one.

Sam


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