Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-03 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Or even better, if you are going to patch, do a 'cp -rl', and your new ITYM cp -al, and the main benifit (for me) is that diff -urN takes ~10 seconds (cold cache), rather than minutes. Rusty. -- Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK - To

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-03 Thread Rusty Russell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Or even better, if you are going to patch, do a 'cp -rl', and your new ITYM cp -al, and the main benifit (for me) is that diff -urN takes ~10 seconds (cold cache), rather than minutes. Rusty. -- Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK - To unsubscribe

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.02 Ken Moffat wrote: > Hi guys, > I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out > and put me out of my misery ? > > Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without > any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Ken Moffat
Dick, and Mark, thanks. It's compiling nicely now. We learn by experience. Cheers, Ken > Not to worry. In your new Linux directory tree do: > > cd include > mv asm /tmp # or /usr/src, someplace temporary. > > cd .. # Back to Linux > cp .config .. # Save your configuration > make

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without > any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my last > compile, so I thought "make mrproper" was called for. It did a little, > then You copied the link and turned it into its contents > rm:

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: > > I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out > > and put me out of my misery ? > > don't use cp to copy kernel trees unless you use -s. > Thanks for the advice, Mark. I'll give it a go in a minute (got to log off this box and

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: > Hi guys, > I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out > and put me out of my misery ? > > Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without > any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files

Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi guys, I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out and put me out of my misery ? Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my last compile, so I thought "make mrproper"

Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi guys, I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out and put me out of my misery ? Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my last compile, so I thought "make mrproper"

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ken Moffat wrote: Hi guys, I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out and put me out of my misery ? Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Mark Hahn wrote: I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out and put me out of my misery ? don't use cp to copy kernel trees unless you use -s. Thanks for the advice, Mark. I'll give it a go in a minute (got to log off this box and

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Cox
Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my last compile, so I thought "make mrproper" was called for. It did a little, then You copied the link and turned it into its contents rm: include/asm:

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread Ken Moffat
Dick, and Mark, thanks. It's compiling nicely now. We learn by experience. Cheers, Ken Not to worry. In your new Linux directory tree do: cd include mv asm /tmp # or /usr/src, someplace temporary. cd .. # Back to Linux cp .config .. # Save your configuration make mrproper #

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.02 Ken Moffat wrote: Hi guys, I guess I'm doing something stupid, so please can somebody point it out and put me out of my misery ? Copied a plain 2.4.0 tree to a new directory, patched it to 2.4.1 without any errors. Then I realised it had all the object files from my last