2017-11-15 18:17 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>: > For rpm-pkg and deb-pkg, a source tar file is created. All paths in > the archive must be prefixed with the base name of the tar. That > means, everything is contained in the directory when you extract it. > > Currently, scripts/package/Makefile uses a symlink for that, and > removes it after the tar is created. > > If you terminate the build during the tar creation, the symlink is > left over. Then, at the next package build, you will see a warning > like follows: > > ln: '.' and 'kernel-4.14.0+/.' are the same file > > It is possible to fix it by adding -n (--no-dereference) option to > the "ln" command, but a cleaner way is to use --transform option > of "tar" command. This option is GNU extension, but it should not > hurt to use it in the Linux build system. > > The 'S' flag is needed to exclude symlinks from the path fixup. > Without it, symlinks in the kernel are broken. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> > ---
Applied to linux-kbuild. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
