On Aug 12, 2014, at 8:04, "otto" ottohaliburton@tx.rr.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: devel-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:devel-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Josh Boyer Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 7:02 AM To: Development discussions related to Fedora Subject: Re: making custom kernels easier to build
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:29 AM, ottos ottohaliburton@tx.rr.com wrote: Since this topic is here. There is an error in Makefile when you do a make modules_install. It attempts to delete a directory with a delete file command. This occurs in two places. If you are fixing fix this problem.
That doesn't explain much. Why is that a problem? Which two lines? It's clearly not erroring in when it is called or the build would fail.
Also, please don't top post.
Josh It does fail!!!! Try it
This sort if failure occurs when someone does a "cp -r" or better yet, a "scp -r" to copy the build tree elsewhere and the directory symlink gets replicated as a directory, instead.
From long, harsh experience: do not try to decide, in a Makefile, whether a directory is a symlink and get cutesy about it. Use the "rm -r" hammer to make sure.