[PATCH] arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek at suse.cz> wrote:
> On 9.10.2013 09:18, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Sorry for chiming in that late, but I didn't think of this when reading the
>> original submission.
>>
>> Just doing "make oldconfig; make install" used to work.
>
> On ARM and maybe other architectures.

Until 2009 it also worked on x86 ;-)

>> Removing the dependency of "make vmlinux" on vmlinux breaks this, doesn't it?
>
>> Not that I'm strongly attached to it, but there may be other users...
>
> We can't eat the cake and have it :). What can be done is to make

Sure.

> arch/arm/boot/install.sh print a friendlier error message, like the x86
> version does:
>
> if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
>         echo ""                                                   1>&2
>         echo " *** Missing file: $1"                              1>&2
>         echo ' *** You need to run "make" before "make install".' 1>&2
>         echo ""                                                   1>&2
>         exit 1
> fi

Definitely!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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