Upstream-Status: Backport [The fix is already in upstream cvs repo, but not in the stable release] When working on the self-hosted-image work, I found in the target "bitbake eglibc-initial -c install" always failed: make[1]: Entering directory `/raid/pe2/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/eglibc-initial-2.13-r18+svnr14157/eglibc-2_13/libc' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 include/limits.h /usr/include/limits.h /usr/bin/install: cannot remove `/usr/include/limits.h': Permission denied make[1]: *** [/usr/include/limits.h] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/raid/pe2/build/tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/eglibc-initial-2.13-r18+svnr14157/eglibc-2_13/libc' make: *** [install-headers] Error 2 ERROR: oe_runmake faile Debugging shows the install_root variable in eglibc's makefiles is strangely reset at some place. Further investigation shows this is a bug of make-3.82: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30723 http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/make/main.c?root=make&r1=1.243&r2=1.244 http://old.nabble.com/-bug--30723--implicit-re-executing-of-subdirs-breaks-$(origin)-with-make-3.82-td29394353.html The patch was got from the second link above(the upstream cvs repo of make). Thu Dec 1 16:05:59 CST 2011 Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui diff -Nru make-3.82.orig//main.c make-3.82/main.c --- make-3.82.orig//main.c 2010-07-19 15:10:53.000000000 +0800 +++ make-3.82/main.c 2011-12-01 16:04:11.818522186 +0800 @@ -2093,7 +2093,7 @@ const char *pv = define_makeflags (1, 1); char *p = alloca (sizeof ("MAKEFLAGS=") + strlen (pv) + 1); sprintf (p, "MAKEFLAGS=%s", pv); - putenv (p); + putenv (allocated_variable_expand (p)); } if (ISDB (DB_BASIC))