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From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: build -->/usr/src/linux
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 21:49:06 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <3AD0A029.C17C3EFC@rcn.com>,
Marvin Stodolsky  <stodolsk@rcn.com> wrote:
>Thanks for responding.  But I would still like to understand what the
>functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc.  Is it dispensable,
>once the module tree has been installed? 

It's needed for modules that are distributed sperately, so that
they can use cc -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include

Or even

	l=`pwd`
	cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
	make $l/module.o

.. but there should be a cleaner way to get at the CFLAGS used
to compile the kernel.

Mike.

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