Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 May 2006 12:47:10 +0200 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: How to check if kernel sources are installed on a system? |
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On 26/05/06, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-05-25 17:44:13 -0400, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:39:52PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2006-05-25 17:34:34 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > >> >> > >> >> find / -name libata-scsi.c > >> > > >> > Which of the 10 versions showing up is the "right" one? > >> > >> For the sake of compiling out-of-tree modules, it's also useless, > >> as sanitised headers (like Fedora's kernel-devel package) won't have this. > >> > >> Following /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build is the only way this can work. > >> (And that should be true on any distro) > > > > As long as you actually compile the modules on the machine they're > > ment to run on... > > > > MfG, JBG > > Distributions really need to have been built on the target system > so that the CONFIG variables are correct and the various dynamic > files have been created. Therefore I suggest that the presence of: > > /usr/src/linux-`uname -r`/System.map > > ... is probably good enough for most everyone. >
Assuming you build your kernels in /usr/src/ - many people don't, me included. My kernels are all build in /home/juhl/download/kernel/linux-<version>/
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