John Kacur napsal(a): > Yes, I doubled checked that the problem exists, and it is quite easy for me to > reproduce. However, my proposed solution is also broken, please don't > apply, I'm still investigating. > > I am surprised that you are not able to reproduce the problem though. > Did you follow the steps I that I outlined? I did $ git checkout v2.6.33-rc3 $ mkdir /bld/2.6.33-rc3 $ zcat /proc/config.gz >/bld/2.6.33-rc3/.config $ make O=/bld/2.6.33-rc3/ oldconfig ... hit Enter several times ... $ ls -ld include/config /bld/2.6.33-rc3/include/config/ ls: cannot access include/config: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x 2 mmarek users 4096 2010-01-06 21:35 /bld/2.6.33-rc3/include/config// $ make O=/bld/2.6.33-rc3/ GEN /bld/2.6.33-rc3/Makefile scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/x86/Kconfig Using /home/mmarek/linux-2.6 as source for kernel GEN /bld/2.6.33-rc3/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h UPD include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h CC kernel/bounds.s ... continues building ... The mkdir command has been in the Makefile since 2006 (c955cca), so I think that your problem is caused by something else. Try a make V=1 build with a read-only source tree to see which mkdir command fails. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html