On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:39 pm, you wrote:
> > > Is there any reason that a "make modules_install" has to modify files in
> > > the source tree?
> >
> > This should not happen. (I do not know the root_squash option but that
> > should not matter).
> > Can you please try:
> > make V=1 modules_install
> > and post the output.
>
> Oops, it turns out the problem was actually occurring during "make modules"
> not "make modules_install". I'm calling kbuild through some autoconf
> generated Makefiles, and autoconf always wants the "install" target to depend
> on the "all" target. This results in the kernel's "make modules" getting
> re-run as root before "make modules_install". This fails due to
> the .tmp_versions and similar getting unconditionally rebuilt during "make
> modules" (output attached).
>
> I've worked around it by having the autoconf make all target ignore errors
> from the invocation of the kernel's "make modules".
OK - thanks for reporting back the real issue.
Sam
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