Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:16:19 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: ANN: LKMB (Linux Kernel Module Builder) version 0.1.16 |
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > olaf@bigred.inka.de said: > > Only for stand-alone machines which only ever compile and run one > > kernel. You don't need a data center to violate that, you just need > > the fairly usual three-boxes home network (one of which is mainly a > > router/firewall which has no development environment if only for > > security reasons, or because it's a scavenged '486). > > Er, if it has no development environment, why are you bitching about the > fact that it's not possible to compile kernel modules on it? > > The box which holds your firewall's kernel source can be used to compile > extra out-of-tree modules. The directory /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build, > while a reasonable _default_ for out-of-tree modules to use, should > generally be overridable with a directory specified by yourself.
`uname -r` is the kernel version of the running kernel. It is NOT by magic the kernel version of the kernel you are building...
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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