On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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