On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:44 -0700, Greg Hosler wrote: > Hi, > > I have a custom kernel module, which I have successfully build on earlier > kernels by doing a > > export KERNEL_VERSION="the kernel version" > make > > The makefile itself has pretty standard stuff: > > > KDIR := /lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/build > PWD := $(shell pwd) > > followed by target definitions. > > In all earlier installed kernels, /lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/build was a > directory. > > in the latest errata, /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/build is a soft link to > > ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3-i686 > > My question is: > > is this a bug ? or is this the way of future kernel module builds ? > > and > > given this soft link, do we now have to d/l the rource, and > install it to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3-i686 ? > > I'm guessing that I would need to do a rpmbuild -bp first. > > Has anyone built a kernel module with the latest errata kernel > (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) > > This is for FC-3 > > thanks for any info and/or pointers. T think this kernel was packaged the FC4 way by mistake, so you'll need to install the kernel-devel package. All should be OK then. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
