Re: cross-depmod?

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:45:16PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, David Vrabel wrote:
> > Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > > My problem is that I cross-build my kernels, and 'make rpm' is very
> > > unhappy when it can't use depmod. I know that I can do 'make
> > > DEPMOD=/bin/true rpm', but can't we figure that out automatically?
> >
> > I'd suggest not running depmod when building an RPM but instead run it
> > as part of the RPMs post-installation script.
> 
> I guess Hollis (just like me) is mostly interested in the possible error
> messages of depmod, due to missing exported symbols.

This is fixed in modpost so you actually now get a warning when modpost
is executed.

	Sam
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