The patch below prevents a stray error message in the case that either DISTDIR or DESTDIR is empty, by preventing readlink from being called in that case. Another option would be to use readlink -s, but that has the undesirable effect of staying silent in situations other than empty DISTDIR/DESTDIR Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com> diff -r 9afd25b90af4 tools/examples/Makefile --- a/tools/examples/Makefile Mon Mar 20 09:56:58 2006 -0700 +++ b/tools/examples/Makefile Tue Mar 21 16:53:04 2006 -0500 @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ UDEV_RULES_DIR = /etc/udev UDEV_RULES_DIR = /etc/udev UDEV_RULES = xen-backend.rules -DI = $(shell readlink -f $(DISTDIR)) -DE = $(shell readlink -f $(DESTDIR)) +DI = $(if $(DISTDIR),$(shell readlink -f $(DISTDIR)),) +DE = $(if $(DESTDIR),$(shell readlink -f $(DESTDIR)),) ifeq ($(findstring $(DI),$(DE)),$(DI)) HOTPLUGS=install-hotplug install-udev else _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel