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    SubjectRe: [kbuild regression, post-rc1] Remote installation over read-only NFS broken
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    On Monday 07 June 2010, Michal Marek wrote:
    > On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 07:41:42AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Namely, I build kernels on a central machine and export the build directory
    > > > along with the kernel sources over read-only NFS to test boxes. Then, on the
    > > > test boxes I run "make modules_install", copy the kernel to /boot, run mkinitrd
    > > > and so on. Now, after your commit above the "make modules_install" command on
    > > > the test boxes doesn't work any more, because it tries to write to the build
    > > > directory, which is mounted read-only.
    > > >
    > > > Please fix or revert.
    > >
    > > Ahh. It's broken for another reason too. Even if it's a writable
    > > filesystem, it means that there's a lot of files that get written by root
    > > (since you have to be root to do the install). Which is very
    > > uncomfortable, and we've tried very hard to avoid that.
    >
    > I can fix both issues by the below patch, but then it reintroduces the
    > issue Eric reported to me with the original approach:
    >
    > | And indeed it's strange - while scripts/Makefile.build doesn't fail
    > | since
    > | there seems to be a script that generates some Makefiles in between
    > | the build process, I'll get this figured out to see what is the root
    > | cause.
    >
    > (the whole thread is at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/6/16). Eric, does
    > the above still hold, i.e. if you apply the below patch, does
    > scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin fail again? If so, is it possible to fix the
    > driver build process instead?
    >
    > Here is the patch:
    >
    > Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules
    >
    > Generating the file in make modules_install was broken as well, because
    > it didn't work in a readonly filesystem and otherwise it generated a
    > root-owned file which is not wanted.
    >
    > Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
    > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

    The patch works for me, thanks.

    > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
    > index efdc3d0..2735465 100644
    > --- a/Makefile
    > +++ b/Makefile
    > @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ all: modules
    > # using awk while concatenating to the final file.
    >
    > PHONY += modules
    > -modules: $(vmlinux-dirs) $(if $(KBUILD_BUILTIN),vmlinux)
    > +modules: $(vmlinux-dirs) $(if $(KBUILD_BUILTIN),vmlinux) modules.builtin
    > $(Q)$(AWK) '!x[$$0]++' $(vmlinux-dirs:%=$(objtree)/%/modules.order) > $(objtree)/modules.order
    > @$(kecho) ' Building modules, stage 2.';
    > $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modpost
    > @@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ PHONY += modules_install
    > modules_install: _modinst_ _modinst_post
    >
    > PHONY += _modinst_
    > -_modinst_: modules.builtin
    > +_modinst_:
    > @if [ -z "`$(DEPMOD) -V 2>/dev/null | grep module-init-tools`" ]; then \
    > echo "Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools"; \
    > echo "See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt";\
    > --

    Rafael


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