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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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Subject: Re: modules_install target 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:38:46 BST."
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:38:46 +0100, 
"J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
>I have recently noticed that 'make modules_install' tries as a last step
>
>if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.4.1-ac13; fi
>
>I depends on 'make install' doing the right symlinks in /boot.
>Would not be better to do a:
>
>if [ -r System.map-2.4.1-ac13 ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map-2.4.1-ac13 
> 2.4.1-ac13; fi

The System.map depmod uses is the one in the top level linux directory.
It has nothing to do with where the distribution will copy that
System.map to, nor does it depend on /boot.  Leave it alone.

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