Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:25:32 +0100 (BST) |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Symlinks are wonderful things > > > > /lib/modules/2.2.14/build > > I like this one. It puts the thing in the same tree as the modules > themselves, so it's self-contained. Let's _document_ it as a symlink, and > make "make modules_install" do that part too (I don't use modules so I'd > rather somebody else sent me the tested - likely one-liner - patch to do > this).
Let's think about this a little more carefully. IMHO, making "modules_install" is the wrong place to do this:
1. When we haven't compiled any modules, we're not going to make modules_install in addition to make install. Therefore this link will not be set up.
2. What if the machine you're making modules_install on isn't the machine that you're compiling other kernel modules packages on? In this case, the compilation machine has no sight of the symlink.
However, its fine for your single-box only setup where your kernel is compiled on the same machine that its run on.
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