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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:54:21 +0000 (UTC)
From: Alex Goddard <agoddard@purdue.edu>
To: Melchior FRANZ <mfranz@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.52 and modules (lots of unresolved symbols)?
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Melchior FRANZ wrote:

> * Alex Goddard -- Monday 16 December 2002 19:32:
> > Huh.  Like I said, reinstalling the mod tools and doing a rebuild after a
> > make clean cleared it up for me.
> > 
> > Weird.
> 
> Not really. The problem is, that the kernel Makefile contains
> an absolute path for depmod (/sbin/depmod) which doesn't seem
> like a good idea. I you are installing the module-init-tools
> to /usr/local/sbin, they don't take precedence over the old
> depmod et al.
> 
> Why doesn't the Makefile simply define "DEPMOD = depmod"
> instead of "DEPMOD = /sbin/depmod" (and likewise for
> genksyms)? 

Ah.  That makes sense.  Your question is the same as mine, then.  Why 
define an absolute path for depmod?

One suggestion for the person who started this thread, then, is to make 
sure that /sbin/depmod is, or is pointing to, a version of depmod that 
won't freak out over the modules.

-- 
Alex Goddard
agoddard@purdue.edu
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