Re: [bug #33034] "Makefile:23: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop." for Linux kernel out of source builds

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:58:00PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 20:15 -0700, David Boyce wrote:
> > Paul.
> > 
> > Thank you very much! This means I'll be able to make professional use
> > the many features and bugfixes which have arrived post-3.81 at some
> > point. Given the flurry of other fit-and-finish fixes lately, would it
> > be safe to assume there will be a 4.01 or equivalent upcoming in the
> > foreseeable future?
> 
> Yes, before too long.  I don't plan on any major features in the next
> release, just cleanup and bug fixing.
> 
> I don't plan on a release right away (like this month) though.

Not a problem; it should be an easy patch to backport.

> I have to admit I still just don't understand the problem here.  Surely
> no one is building kernels that old (pre-2.6.34) without any patches at
> all applied; that sounds inconceivably insecure.  Why not just add one
> more patch that changes the 3 places (at most) in the makefiles that
> have this problem to the suite of patches that are already applied to
> those old kernels when you build them?  It seems insane to me to avoid
> updating tools merely because of a few lines of makefile change in
> kernels that are almost 4 years old.

When doing archaeology on old kernels via git, you don't normally apply
*any* patches if you can help it, because they're a pain to keep
re-applying to each kernel you want to examine.

> Anyway.  It will work for now, apparently.

Thanks!

- Josh Triplett