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DISCUSSION richard offer 1 participant 1 message Apr 9, 2001 1 message not in the archive

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In article <[email protected]> you write:

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In article <[email protected]>,

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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 distributed sperately, so that they can use cc -I /lib/modules/uname -r/build/include

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Or even

	l=`pwd`
	cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
	make $l/module.o

.. but there should be a cleaner way to get at the CFLAGS used to compile the kernel.

Ahhhh. Not again.

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...

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Mike.

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