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From: offer@sgi.com (richard offer)
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:01:06 -0700
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Subject: Re: build -->/usr/src/linux
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In article <9aqmgo$8f6ol$1@fido.engr.sgi.com> you write:
>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.


Ahhhh. Not again.

uname does not always provide useful information (cross compiling). Even
if you're building the same ISA, you maybe in a chroot'ed environment.

Can we please not assume that everybody only ever builds native...

>
>Mike.

richard.

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Richard Offer                         Technical Lead, Trust Technology.
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