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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:08:25 +0200
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: richard offer <offer@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: build -->/usr/src/linux
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richard offer wrote:
> 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...

Nobody is assuming that.  If you're hard enough to do a cross compile,
you can build external modules using "make KERNEL_RELEASE=2.4.2
KERNEL_SOURCE=/home/jamie/cross_compiling/kernel ARCH=mips64" or
whatever.

-- Jamie
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