From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> To: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 2.4 is available Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 23:01:17 +1000 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 04 May 2002 00:19:10 +1000, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote: >Release 2.4 of kernel build for kernel 2.5 (kbuild 2.5) is available. >http://sourceforge.net/projects/kbuild/, package kbuild-2.5, download >release 2.4. kbuild-2.5-core-11 Changes from core-10. Redo the passing of kbuild variables to $(shell) commands. Require make 3.79.1 for kbuild 2.5. The make 'export' command does not export the variables to $(shell) commands, which makes it messy when those commands need to access the variables. The workaround for this was a bit hackish and a core-10 change broke with common source and object. core-11 uses a new method of passing the kbuild variables to $(shell) commands. It is cleaner, but it requires features that are not available in make 3.77. make 3.78 should work but since 3.79.1 has been out for almost two years and is being used by any recent distribution, the code says that make 3.79.1 is required for kbuild 2.5. An update to 2.5/Documentation/Changes has been submitted. Linus has already done 2.5 changes that require make 3.79 features, the Changes update is overdue. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/