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

[Paul Smith]

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.


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.

Anyway.  It will work for now, apparently.