[nflug] Destructive Makefile???

[Darin Perusich]

Look for an rm in the Makefile for starters and comment or remove it and
give it another try. Be glad it only removed itself and didn't
recursively nuke the whole file system.

I know of worse procedures. I never encountered this but a colleague was
doing an uninstall of an old version of Oracle years ago and the
uninstaller did an rm -rf *.* on $ORACLE_HOME and it wiped out
everything on the system.

Roelant Ossewaarde wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a problem that has me scratching my head in disbelief.
> 
> Here's the scenario: I'm trying to build a RTL-8180 driver for my
> wireless card. I've installed linux-sources (I'm running a 2.6.8-18
> kernel).
> 
> I should say I've never had to build drivers before; it doesn't look
> hard, but for some reason I get an error message.
> 
> Here's the funky part: `make' will actually REMOVE all of my source
> files when it encounters the error:
> 
> miep at debian:~$ ls rtl8180-0.21
> AUTHORS            ieee80211_crypt.h      ieee80211_rx.c  Makefile      
> module_unload24  r8180_gct.h      r8180_pm.c      r8180_wx.h
> CHANGES            ieee80211_crypt_wep.c  ieee80211_tx.c  Makefile26    
> r8180_93cx6.c    r8180.h          r8180_pm.h      README
> compat24.h         ieee802_11.h           ieee80211_wx.c  module_load   
> r8180_93cx6.h    r8180_hw.h       r8180_sa2400.c  README.adhoc
> COPYING            ieee80211.h            INSTALL         module_load24 
> r8180_core.c     r8180_max2820.c  r8180_sa2400.h  README.master
> ieee80211_crypt.c  ieee80211_module.c     LICENSE         module_unload 
> r8180_gct.c      r8180_max2820.h  r8180_wx.c
> miep at debian:~$ cd rtl8180-0.21/
> miep at debian:~/rtl8180-0.21$ make
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-486/build SUBDIRS=/home/miep/rtl8180-0.21
> MODVERDIR=/home/miep/rtl8180-0.21 modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18'
> 
>   WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18/Module.symvers
>            is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
> 
> scripts/Makefile.build:17: /home/miep/rtl8180-0.21/Makefile: No such
> file or directory
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/home/miep/rtl8180-0.21/Makefile'. 
> Stop.
> make[1]: *** [_module_/home/miep/rtl8180-0.21] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18'
> make: *** [2.6] Error 2
> miep at debian:~/rtl8180-0.21$ ls
> miep at debian:~/rtl8180-0.21$
> 
> Note the last command: the directory is now EMPTY.
> 
> This has nothing to do with the driver itself; before I installed the
> kernel sources, I got the same error, but no removal of files. Also, the
> same behavior occurs when I'm trying to build a different driver, in a
> different directory. I have the feeling something within the kernel
> build system does this, but I cannot believe that anyone would ever code
> such a destructive procedure.
> 
> I have no clue what's happening here. Anyone else?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roelant.
> 
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Darin Perusich
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