[PATCH] arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux
From: geert@linux-m68k.org (Geert Uytterhoeven)
Date: 2013-10-09 10:47:01
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michal Marek [off-list ref] wrote:
On 9.10.2013 09:18, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:quoted
Sorry for chiming in that late, but I didn't think of this when reading the original submission. Just doing "make oldconfig; make install" used to work.On ARM and maybe other architectures.
Until 2009 it also worked on x86 ;-)
quoted
Removing the dependency of "make vmlinux" on vmlinux breaks this, doesn't it?quoted
Not that I'm strongly attached to it, but there may be other users...We can't eat the cake and have it :). What can be done is to make
Sure.
arch/arm/boot/install.sh print a friendlier error message, like the x86
version does:
if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
echo "" 1>&2
echo " *** Missing file: $1" 1>&2
echo ' *** You need to run "make" before "make install".' 1>&2
echo "" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
Definitely!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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