On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:07:24PM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:42:36AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> > >Are you also responsible for this stupid depmod call?
> >
> > What are you talking about? Which "stupid depmod call"? What symptoms
> > are you seeing? Always provide details in a bug report.
>
> Sorry. There is only *one* call in the kernel to depmod.
> Everything else is *not* kernel related at all.
>
> <cite src="linux-2.4.0-test6/Makefile>
> # If System.map exists, run depmod. This deliberately does not have a
> # dependency on System.map since that would run the dependency tree on
> # vmlinux. This depmod is only for convenience to give the initial
> # boot a modules.dep even before / is mounted read-write. However the
> # boot script depmod is the master version.
> ifeq "$(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH))" ""
> depmod_opts :=
> else
> depmod_opts := -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r
> endif
> .PHONY: _modinst_post
> _modinst_post: _modinst_post_pcmcia
> if [ -r System.map ]; then $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map $(depmod_opts) $(KERNELRELEASE); fi
> </cite>
>
> I cannot install newest modutils on our CPU servers (I'm no root
> there!) and therefore can never do a sucessful
>
> export INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$HOME
> export INSTALL_PATH=$HOME
> make oldconfig dep bzImage modules modules_install
So, what's the trouble?
make DEPMOD=$HOME/modutils/depmod modules_install
will work even if you cannot install depmod into /sbin, won't it?
Jakub
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