[OpenAFS-devel] what's "enable-redhat-buildsys" all about?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:49:46PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Does this imply that kernel-source does not contain enough information
> to build a kernel module?!?  You __need__ the full kernel installed to
> build a module?!?  If so, all I can say is that that... sucks.  How

No, but you need the exact headers from the built kernel. There's been a
whole mess of discussion about this on the kernel mailing list, and more
recently on the Fedora Core lists.

> are you supposed to build a module against a non-installed kernel, or
> for multiple archictures of the same kernel?

I'm working on several ideas for this -- I'll post something really soon
that I hope will be helpful. (The version I've currently got is very BU
specific and I need to clean it up for general consumption.)

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