[Buildroot] fixdep not found

[Thomas Petazzoni]

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.

Thomas
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