[uml-user] Questions about User Mode Linux

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at
Fri Oct 14 06:08:37 EDT 2011


Ooops, sorry, forget the full CC:

On Fre, 2011-10-14 at 11:51 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 14.10.2011 07:29, schrieb michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com:
> > I have attached the trace below, if you are interested. It happened
> > during/after /sbin/init was executed. Version is
> > f2c0d0266cc5eb36a4aa44944b4096ec121490aa of linus'es git tree. However,
> > everything is running now. It was caused by uncleaned files. I am just
> > reporting, because this was suprising to me.
[....]
> >> "make clean ARCH=um" works fine on my system.
> > 
> > Yes, the point is "ARCH=um". I do not really understand why it is needed for
> > clean operations?
> 
> Otherwise kbuild will use x86 as arch.

The question is IMHO more in the direction of:
Shouldn't `make mrproper` delete *all* generated files from all
architectures (and not only the current one) to get the tree in a (or
actually the) pristine state?

Hmm, how are other arches handling that?

	Bernd
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