Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:56:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
I like this one. It puts the thing in the same tree as the modules
themselves, so it's self-contained. Let's _document_ it as a symlink, and
make "make modules_install" do that part too (I don't use modules so I'd
rather somebody else sent me the tested - likely one-liner - patch to do
this).
You asked for it, you got it.....
- Ted
P.S. Vendors should test this against their kernel packaging tools,
which tend to do all sorts of non-standard stuff because they try to
build build multiple kernels and multiple sets of modules from a single
kernel source tree.
Patch generated: on Thu Jul 27 15:54:21 EDT 2000 by tytso@snap.thunk.org
against Linux version 2.4.0test5-pre5
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 Makefile
--- Makefile 2000/07/27 19:44:54 1.1
+++ Makefile 2000/07/27 19:51:12
@@ -306,13 +306,15 @@
modules_install:
@( \
MODLIB=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE); \
+ mkdir -p $$MODLIB; \
+ rm -f $$MODLIB/build; \
+ ln -s `pwd` $$MODLIB/build; \
cd modules; \
MODULES=""; \
inst_mod() { These="`cat $$1`"; MODULES="$$MODULES $$These"; \
mkdir -p $$MODLIB/$$2; cp $$These $$MODLIB/$$2; \
echo Installing modules under $$MODLIB/$$2; \
}; \
- mkdir -p $$MODLIB; \
\
if [ -f BLOCK_MODULES ]; then inst_mod BLOCK_MODULES block; fi; \
if [ -f NET_MODULES ]; then inst_mod NET_MODULES net; fi; \
-
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