Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:12:34 PDT, 4Front Technologies said:

> We precisely use this mechanism - we use 
> /lib/modules/<version>/build/include/linux/config.h to figure such features out
> but when the "build" part of the path doesn't point to the right source tree,
> where do you look?. SuSE ships kernel sources "unconfigured" which means that
> you have to rely on something else to tell you what the exact kernel
> configuration looks like.

Right, but hopefully you can tell it's a SuSE machine via other means, and
then apply a suitable workaround.

Or are you claiming that SuSE is *so* weird that you can't even apply a
test like:

if [ -test $SuSE ]; then
	echo Smells like a SuSE box - which of the following best describes your box?
	i=1
	for foo in ($likely_dirs) do;
		echo ${i}: $foo
		i=`expr $i + 1`
	done;
	read flavor
	echo You chose $flavor...
	ln -s /usr/src/linux/$flavor my_build
fi

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