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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:00:01 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@vipe.technion.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: ANN: LKMB (Linux Kernel Module Builder) version 0.1.16
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 07:00:58PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 
> Do you mean I'll need a live Linux kernel to build the kernel module
> package?

Yes, you fundamentally need the full kernel to compile a module.
Modules may refer to different headers, and some may even be arch specific.

The trick dwmw2 gave you is the only _sane_ way to build a module.

	Sam
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