Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <> | Subject | please revert commit ce8556cca6 "kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed" introduced in v4.18.4. | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2018 20:53:46 +0200 |
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This patch requires that /sbin/depmod is installed and installable on the build host.
But not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the file patch /sbin/depmod.
I use, for example, a Darwin system to cross compile Linux and I run depmod -a on the embedded system once, after installing a new Linux kernel there.
I have no problem with seeing a warning, but aborting the build process is IMHO a bad idea since the previous behaviour didn't harm many people as far as I see. Probably 99% of people compiling Linux kernels do that on Linux and 99% of those have depmod installed for optimal operation of their build host. So IMHO printing the warning is good enough.
BR and thanks, Nikolaus Schaller
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