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[Xense-devel] RE: [Xen-devel] makefile regression in 5625?


  • To: "Scott Parish" <srparish@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xense-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:40:36 +0100
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:08:10 +0000
  • List-id: "A discussion list for those developing security enhancements for Xen." <xense-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcWDZoXnBjGW1mUuRf2ob6sSP/5XdQAKWVdQ
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] makefile regression in 5625?

> I'm using a crosstools cross compiler, so i can't and don't 
> want to build the whole source tree. I used to be able to 
> generate the two files i was interested in (xen.gz and 
> vmlinuz) by doing:
> 
>   cd xen
>   make XEN_TARGET_ARCH=x86_64 
> CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu- && cp xen.gz /tftpboot
>   cd ..
>   make XEN_TARGET_ARCH=x86_64 
> CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu- linux26
> 
> With changeset 5625, doing "make linux26" seems to be 
> building the whole source tree. I'd include a patch, but the 
> comments for 5625 don't give me a good enough idea why the 
> change was made, so i'd be tempted to just revert.

make linux26 is a legacy target, but the behaviour change was not really
intended. 

The preferred method to do what you want would be:

  make KERNELS=linux-2.6* kernels

Ian

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