Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 03:54:27 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2: scripts/modpost.c
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Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org> wrote:
>
> as I found out, it's impossible to use the build-chain tool scripts/modpost
>  of the 2.6 kernel series to externally build modules from a directory that
>  contains the character sequence '.o'. Weird things happen if you try to do
>  so.
> 
>  With a directory structure like on my system here, building the current DVB
>  driver in '/home/daniel/cvs.linuxtv.org/dvb-kernel/build-2.6i/' generates a 
>  file called '/home/daniel/cvs.linuxtv.mod.c' since modpost cuts every 
>  filename string at the first occurence of '.o', not only the 'trailing .o',
>  as the comment says.

I tried your patch the other day and had weird compilation errors with x86
allyesconfig.   Could you check that?

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