extra targets in busybox Makefile

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Feb 5 01:38:54 PST 2007


On Friday 02 February 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 3:12 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > busybox is failing because it's
> > trying to generate depmod and build modules
>
> Because your "larger build system" (which we didn't write) is calling make
> modules on busybox?

incorrect ... the busybox system changes the default all dependencies based 
upon the environment it is run in

so if the host env has the same defines that the kernel uses, then busybox 
will incorrectly try and generate modules (since it is really just using the 
kernel build)
-mike
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