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Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:47:10 +0200
From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Subject: Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system?
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On 26/05/06, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-05-25 17:44:13 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:39:52PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2006-05-25 17:34:34 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> find / -name libata-scsi.c
> >> >
> >> > Which of the 10 versions showing up is the "right" one?
> >>
> >> For the sake of compiling out-of-tree modules, it's also useless,
> >> as sanitised headers (like Fedora's kernel-devel package) won't have this.
> >>
> >> Following /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is the only way this can work.
> >> (And that should be true on any distro)
> >
> > As long as you actually compile the modules on the machine they're
> > ment to run on...
> >
> > MfG, JBG
>
> Distributions really need to have been built on the target system
> so that the CONFIG variables are correct and the various dynamic
> files have been created. Therefore I suggest that the presence of:
>
>         /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/System.map
>
> ... is probably good enough for most everyone.
>

Assuming you build your kernels in /usr/src/ - many people don't, me included.
My kernels are all build in /home/juhl/download/kernel/linux-<version>/

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