The SUSE kernel packages are built by doing the following: make silentoldonfig make prepare make scripts make clean
<capture file list used for building modules> make -j$NCPUs On parallel builds (also using -C/O=), this can occasionally fail with: HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [arch/x86/tools/relocs] Error 1 make[2]: *** [archscripts] Error 2 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 The error can also be "Permission denied." Without the make clean this works ok. What seems to be happening is that fixdep exists so relocs is able to be rebuilt, but then somewhere there is a FORCE rule that applies to fixdep so it is rebuilt. If the timing is right, the relocs build can happen while the fixdep rebuild is happening and we either get a non-executable fixdep or a nonexistent fixdep. This patch moves the archscripts dependency after scripts_basic so that fixdep is always built after relocs. If I understand the build order correctly, this should be the case since scripts_basic is essentially a prereq of everything. This was introduced by commit 6520fe55 (x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs), which added the archscripts dependency to archprepare. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]> --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ prepare1: prepare2 include/linux/version include/config/auto.conf $(cmd_crmodverdir) -archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic +archprepare: archheaders scripts_basic archscripts prepare1 prepare0: archprepare FORCE $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=. -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
