Re: Removing .tmp_versions considered harmful

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

Hello, Sam!

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 23:47 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:55:27PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Remove *.mod files but not .tmp_versions for external builds
> > 
> > From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> > 
> > When "make install" is run as root, .tmp_versions is re-created and
> > becomes owned by root.  Subsequent "make" run by user fails because
> > .tmp_versions cannot be removed.
> 
> What architecture?
> For i386 and x86_64 make install no longer try to compile the kernel.

That's x86_64.  It turns out the dependency of "install" on "all" in the
project Makefile was causing .tmp_versions to be re-created.  Removing
the dependency on "all" fixes the problem.  This is the original rule:

install: all
        $(MAKE) $(KBUILD_FLAGS) modules_install \
                INSTALL_MOD_DIR=kernel/drivers/net/wireless
        $(DEPMOD) -ae

However, I'd rather keep the dependency of "install" on "all".  It's
better to compile a few files as root than to install out-of-date
modules.  I'm glad that your patch gives me a choice how to write the
project's Makefile.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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