Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
richard offer wrote: > What if your application contains some user code and a kernel module ? > Want an obvious example ? X. VMware is another. In such cases, they have to do the same as any other system-specific packages: guess, or ask the user. Autoconf apps prefer guessing; X uses Imake and

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-10 Thread richard offer
* $ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at "10-Apr: 6:42pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /" * * * richard offer wrote: * > * > uname does not always provide useful information (cross compiling). Even * > * > if you're building the same ISA, you maybe in a chroot'ed environment. * > * > * > * > Can we please not assume tha

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
richard offer wrote: > * > uname does not always provide useful information (cross compiling). Even > * > if you're building the same ISA, you maybe in a chroot'ed environment. > * > > * > Can we please not assume that everybody only ever builds native... > * > * Nobody is assuming that. If you'r

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-10 Thread richard offer
* $ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at "10-Apr: 4:08pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /" * * * richard offer wrote: * > uname does not always provide useful information (cross compiling). Even * > if you're building the same ISA, you maybe in a chroot'ed environment. * > * > Can we please not assume that everybody only

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
richard offer wrote: > uname does not always provide useful information (cross compiling). Even > if you're building the same ISA, you maybe in a chroot'ed environment. > > Can we please not assume that everybody only ever builds native... Nobody is assuming that. If you're hard enough to do a

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-09 Thread richard offer
In article <9aqmgo$8f6ol$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Marvin Stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Thanks for responding. But I would still like to understand what the >>functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc. Is it dispensable, >>once the module tr

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >There is a way though I'd not call it clean. Here is an extract from > > Do you think something like this is the correct approach? If it > was part of the official kernel you could write a Makefile like this: > > [code to creake /lib/modules/`uname -r`/config.mak

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> .. but there should be a cleaner way to get at the CFLAGS used >> to compile the kernel. > >There is a way though I'd not call it clean. Here is an extract from Do you think something like

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Jamie Lokier
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > .. but there should be a cleaner way to get at the CFLAGS used > to compile the kernel. There is a way though I'd not call it clean. Here is an extract from the Makefile I am using for separately-distributed modules. It should work with kernels 2.0 to 2.4, all su

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marvin Stodolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for responding. But I would still like to understand what the >functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc. Is it dispensable, >once the module tree has been installed? It's needed for modules that are di

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Russell Thanks for responding. But I would still like to understand what the functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc. Is it dispensable, once the module tree has been installed? Incidentally, per below, my own modutils is current, though some of the folks using our ltmodem.o compiler

Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > It's presence has required some gymnastics, per below, during module > installation for the Winmodem driver, ltmodem.o requiring a subsequent > "depmod -a" You need to update your modutils package - there have been a number of im

build -->/usr/src/linux

2001-04-08 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
the 2.4.nn ??: # ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.3/ total 24 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root ??? 20 Apr 2 17:00 build -> /usr/src/linux-2.4.3 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 1024 Apr 2 17:00 kernel -rw-r--r--1 root root 4725 Apr 8 08:06 modules.dep -rw-r--r--1