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

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, June 17, 2004 17:49:46 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> 
wrote:

> Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> writes:
>
>> Actually, not in 2.6 / Fedora Core 2. The new kernel build system
>> requires headers that match the specific kernel exactly, and so the new
>> kernel packages include them. You don't even need the kernel-sourcecode
>> package to build an external module anymore.
>
> 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
> are you supposed to build a module against a non-installed kernel, or
> for multiple archictures of the same kernel?


"installed?" No.

You need a configured kernel source tree.  Just headers doesn't cut it; to 
build a module correctly you need the kernel build system, and several 
intermediate files it generates (of course, these will be built for you if 
needed, but in that case you likely need write access to the kernel source).


It doesn't have to be in /lib/modules/foo/build; that's just a convention.