Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Oct 12 06:02:37 EST 2007
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:12:35AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Timur Tabi writes:
>
> > Is this a new policy? Modules in the kernel are not built unless you want
> > them. Even in arch/powerpc/platforms, only the specific platform file I'm
> > targeting is built. So I don't really understand why you claim it's normal
> > for platform-specific files to be built, regardless of the actual platform.
>
> The wrapper script is intended to be a standalone tool which is
> independent of the kernel configuration, and can be used separately
> from the kernel build process.
Is it ever actually used that way? I wonder if this "intent" is worth the
pain...
-Scott
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