Subject: Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] linux-next: Tree for June 4 - firmware/keyspan/mpr.fw.gen.S

From: Sam Ravnborg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:13:19 +0200

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:38:37PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:16 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > Hi Stephen,
> > 
> > The next-20080604 kernel build fails on the x86_64 machine
> > 
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/autobench/autotest/tmp/build/linux/$(dir)', needed by `firmware/keyspan/mpr.fw.gen.S'.  Stop.
> > make: *** [firmware] Error 2
> 
> Does this 'fix' it?

The correct fix is to get rid of make 3.81 features.
We do want the kernel buildable with make 3.79 and we have today only two
places where we do need a newer version of make:

	scripts/Makefile.headerinst
and now
	firmware/Makefile

Both places should be reworked to avoid this dependency.
I plan to take care of Makfile.headerinst soonish in an attempt
to speed up the checking process (has been on my TODO list for a long time),

And we should not introuduce the below make 3.81 specific feature.
I have not looked into alternative - sorry.

	Sam