On Tue 19-12-17 09:36:54, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> > this is the first time I am seeing this with the current Linus
> > tree. 4.15-rc3 compiled fine. I have checked that you have updated the
> > makefile which generates the file by 715a12334764 ("wireless: don't
> > write C files on failures").
>
> Which introduced the problem - I accidentally put >> redirection there
> instead of just >.
Heh, that wasn't all that hard to spot, I could have tried a bit
harder...
> I just merged a fix for this.
>
> > I have no idea how the generated file is supposed to work but it seems
> > that the cleanup doesn't work properly. Compilation succeeds if I
> > remove the file and it is generated again:
> >
> > $ rm net/wireless/shipped-certs.c
> > [...]
> > GEN net/wireless/shipped-certs.c
> > CC [M] net/wireless/shipped-certs.o
> >
> > I have double checked that neither make clean/distclean removed the
> > file.
>
> I also forgot that, and just fixed it.
>
> Sorry for all the mess with this.
Thanks a lot!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
