Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:00:58 +0200 (IST) | From | Shlomi Fish <> | Subject | Re: ANN: LKMB (Linux Kernel Module Builder) version 0.1.16 |
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Wow! My first patch suggestion! Thanks.
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > print MAKEFILE "CFLAGS = -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2\n\n"; > > That's broken. you need to get the proper kernel CFLAGS, and you shouldn't > assume there's anything useful in /usr/src/linux. >
Ahah. What do you suggest me to do instead? The LKMB package needs to compile on every system it was intended to. It's still a source package that has to compile on any GNU system that has the Linux kernel headers.
> Use "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build" as a default kernel directory, but > allow it to be overridden somehow from the command line. Then do something > like... > > make -C $(LINUXDIR) SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules > > ... to build your module. That way, all the kernel build stuff will be > correct; it'll be just as if you were in a normal subdirectory of the > kernel tree during a 'make modules' run. >
Do you mean I'll need a live Linux kernel to build the kernel module package?
I'm not a big kbuild expert and it show.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> -- > dwmw2 > >
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