[Buildroot] fixdep not found

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 20:55:23 UTC 2016


> On Aug 20, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 13:31:58 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
>>> I'm getting an issue during >>> linux-headers 3.14.51 Configuring
>>> where it executes a make ... headers_install, and then goes to execute
>>> scripts/basic/fixdep, but cannot find it. I can see that fixdep must
>>> be compiled from fixdep.c, which I can find within the particular
>>> build directory. But it's not already compiled when buildroot
>>> generates code that would depend on it.
>>> 
>>> How do I resolve this?
>> 
>> it could be a race condition, so may be you can divide the build into two steps
>> first does make tools and then make headers
> 
> Hu? How could the kernel build system has race conditions? We have
> gazillions of builds involving linux-headers running every day, and we
> never had a single race condition issue.

Right. Never said thats the issue, its one explanation to the issue
and area to explore. There could be local patches which could be a factor.

> 
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com

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