Re: Trouble with make-install from a NFS mount

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > The problem seems to be that 30-rcX thinks that there are dependencies
> > to update (such as include/config/kernel.release and version.h.tmp)
> > during a make-install operation.  Since I am on a root-squashed NFS
> > mount, these files cannot be updated and thus the install fails. 
> > Previous trees prior to linux-current (at least up to 2.6.29) did not
> > try to update these files so the install would succeed.
>
> It is because arch/x86/Makefile has
> a dependency on vmlinux for the install target.
>
> I know hpa has had a fix for it but it is not applied.
> I recall there was a trivial bug in the first version.

OK, do we have a consensus that this is desirable?  I was somewhat 
confused if it was desired or considered user error.

I'll clean up the patch and add it in the former case.

	-hpa

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