2.4.21 fiasco

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Net Llama!:
> On 06/14/03 17:36, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >Quoth Net Llama!:
> >>i figured out why i can't build kernels on the one box (and yes, its all 
> >>kernels):
> >>http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2002-09/msg00070.html
> >>
> >>A few months back i updated the version of make that i had installed so 
> >>that i could build the latest stable version of xawtv.  At the time 
> >>3.80rc2 was the only version of make that would build xawtv.  Seems that 
> >>3.80(-final) came out shortly afterwards.
> >
> >Ah. So, now things are fixed? See, Collins, it isn?t XFS, it?s make!
> >Pftpftpfpt! ;-)
> 
> Well, i'm not having problems with 'make mrproper' & 'make xconfig' 
> anymore.  I'm in the middle of 'make bzImage' at the moment, and things 
> appear to be going well.  stupid make.

I've got 3.80 here. I'm not sure that I would have suspected make
at all. I'd *like* to say I don't blame my tools when things go
wrong, but it's more a matter that it just wouldn't occur to me
that make would get broken like that. Not passing $(TOPDIR) (or
other variables) down to sub-makes would break a lot of Makefiles
out there.

Kurt
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