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

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:25:39 -0400


I guess the question is:  what RPM do I need installed to build multiple
modules for each platform?  Is "kernel-source" sufficient or do I need
something else to get all these ancillary files for each platform build
of a kernel.

-derek

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:

> "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.
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