[U-Boot] Build failures at bb3bcfa2

[Premi, Sanjeev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 8:47 PM
> To: Premi, Sanjeev
> Cc: Stefan Roese; u-boot at lists.denx.de
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Build failures at bb3bcfa2
> 
> Dear "Premi, Sanjeev",
> 
> In message 
> <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB59301E157B034 at dbde02.ent.ti.com>
>  you wrote:
> >
> > Yes. I do have them. I looked at the thread; and the 
> problem is same.
> > 
> > One question: Theses links were not manually created. They 
> would have
> > been created earlier by some script; and or specific patch.
> 
> They used to be created by the Makefiles. This was changed by commit
> fb8b33c1 "tools/Makefile: Remove symlinks for remaining source files".
> 
> > If they are not needed; is it possible to remove them by a
> > make distclean/mrproper - I had tried both.
> 
> When they were created by the Makefiles, they were also removed by
> the distclean/mrproper targets. It seems you left them hanging around
> while updating the code - you should always run "make mrproper"
> before updating the tree. Even better: always use out-of-tree builds,
> so your repository does not collect any such crap.

I ran distclean/mrproper after git-pull.

> 
> > If it makes sense; I can attempt making a quick patch.
> 
> I consider this a usage error. No fix is needed.

Agreed. Stefan provided good explanation earlier.

Best regards,
Sanjeev

> 
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> 
> Wolfgang Denk
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