Re: Build-failure with old files in build-directory (Was: Linux 3.9 released)

2013-05-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 04/29/2013 01:36 AM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 28.04.2013 17:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm not sure if it is supported, but building with a O= -directory that > was previously used to build a 3.8.9-kernel that was "clean"ed (but not > "mrproper"ed) before building 3.9 results in

Re: Build-failure with old files in build-directory (Was: Linux 3.9 released)

2013-04-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 04/29/2013 01:36 AM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 28.04.2013 17:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm not sure if it is supported, but building with a O= -directory that > was previously used to build a 3.8.9-kernel that was "clean"ed (but not > "mrproper"ed) before building 3.9 results in

Build-failure with old files in build-directory (Was: Linux 3.9 released)

2013-04-29 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
On 28.04.2013 17:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: I'm not sure if it is supported, but building with a O= -directory that was previously used to build a 3.8.9-kernel that was "clean"ed (but not "mrproper"ed) before building 3.9 results in a build-failure: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/xssd/usr

Linux 3.9 released

2013-04-28 Thread Linus Torvalds
So the last week was much quieter than the preceding ones, which makes me suspect that one reason -rc7 was bigger than I liked was that people were gaming the system and had timed some of their pull requests for just before the release, explaining why -rc7 was big enough that I didn't actually want