Excessive make mrproper at the end of build

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:37:11PM +0100, Erwan Velu wrote:
> Hey folks,
> Thanks for this tools, it saves my life many times ;)

Glad to hear it!
 
> Before and after installing a DKMS rpm, dkms makes a make mrproper.
> The dkms I had installed works perfectly but other tools I want to 
> compile are failing because the kernel is no more "prepared".
> I must do manually a "make prepare-all" in my kernel tree to insure all 
> my other tools to be able to compile (they don't use dkms at all).
> Is there any solution to prevent dkms from doing a make mrproper before 
> exiting ?

Only on 2.4 kernels that aren't prepared in the Red Hat manner get a
'make mrproper', right?  2.6 should't ever, and 2.4 kernels with the
Red Hat magic shouldn't.

If your kernel source tree has the headers that match the target build
kernel somehow, that should be all you need.  If it's not a Red
Hat-like layout, please provide details of what you've got, and
ideally a patch to recognize that. :-)

Thanks,
Matt


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