Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:08:06 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: make O="<dir>" install; output not relocated; 2.6.16.11(kbuild) |
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On Fri, 2006-04-28 10:00:47 -0700, Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org> wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > The modules_install target uses O= for its _input_ files (that is, > > for the readily compiled modules) and outputs to > > $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$VERSION/ . So you may want to set > > $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) in the same way as you've set V= or O= before. > > > > If you're trying to prepare something to be copied over to a target > > system, the tar-pkg, targz-pkg and tarbz2-pkg targets may be exactly > > what you're searching for. > > > Quite possibly. What about an installed kernel (apart from the > modules)? Will the kernel image and map, etc, get installed into > the "INSTALL_MOD_PATH" as well? It doesn't sound, intuitively,
`make modules_install' will never ever end up installing the kernel image or the System.map or any other architecture-specific boot images. It'll install the modules, nothing more.
The packaging scripts OTOH will of course also take that stuff.
> to be so from the environment variable name. > > It's maybe a bit misleading, but `modules_install' isn't a compilation > > run, it's an installation run. O= was ment to hold all > > compiled/generated objects, but to have a working installation, you > > need to break out of that (or have INSTALL_MOD_PATH set.) > > Fair enough, but I'm more interested in where to specify > the target location of the installed kernel and System.map as > I don't always have modules for a generated kernel, but usually > (near 100% :-)) have an installable kernel image. For development, > I could see it being useful to mount the target system's root in > a local directory (like /mnt), then have the kernel build install > to a target root of "/mnt".
Installing the kernel image is quite architecture specific; most architectures use $(INSTALL_PATH), so this could be something like /path/to/target_system/boot . Though they may also re-run lilo or something like that, so it's possibly not what you actually want to use.
MfG, JBG
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