extra targets in busybox Makefile

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 1 23:14:21 UTC 2007


On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:12, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > I propose to simply never define anything "modular"
> >
> > If people run "make modules",  well, that's their problems.
> 
> there are a bunch of env config settings which can cause problems ... what i'm 
> looking at is busybox gets integrated into a larger build system which 
> includes a kernel and next thing i know, busybox is failing because it's 
> trying to generate depmod and build modules

Huh, if this is really getting problematic,
then feel free to chainsaw "modular" support off.

Or just rename makefile targets ('modules' -> 'dont_use_me__modules')
if you don't want to spend too much time on things which
do not materially improve generated code.
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vda



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