make -j12 all fails in uImage target

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:40:14PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> this is what I got with 2.6.11rc3:
> 
> make ARCH=ppc O=../O-2.6.11-rc3-b50-SMP -j12 all
> ...
>   LD      vmlinux
>   SYSMAP  System.map
>   SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
>   OBJCOPY arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin
>   HOSTCC  arch/ppc/boot/utils/addnote
>   HOSTCC  arch/ppc/boot/utils/mknote
>   HOSTCC  arch/ppc/boot/utils/mkprep
>   LD      arch/ppc/boot/lib/built-in.o
>   HOSTCC  arch/ppc/boot/utils/hack-coff
>   HOSTCC  arch/ppc/boot/utils/mkbugboot
>   OBJCOPY arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin
>   GZIP    arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz
> /bin/sh: line 1: arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.bin: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [arch/ppc/boot/images/vmlinux.gz] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [uImage] Error 2
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> also, one time that zImage.chrp was only 570K instead of the expected
> 1.4M, so netboot failed. But I got no build error.
> Any idea what dependency is missing?

That is kinda odd.  My thought is that arch/ppc/boot/ just isn't fully
safe for -j'ing.  Sam, any ideas on how to debug this kinda problem?
Thanks.

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