On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:27:15AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote:
This line, in the main Makefile, is commented:
export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
Why? It seems pointless, since almost everything has been for ages
requiring this settings, and distros' versions of installkernel have been
taking an empty INSTALL_PATH as meaning /boot for ages (for instance
Mandrake). It's maybe even mandated by the FHS (dunno).
Is there any reason I'm missing?
Changing this may have impact on default behaviour of some versions of
installkernel.
If /boot is ok for other than just i386 we can give it a try.
Please note that there are cases where you build a kernel for machine x on
machine y. Which means: don't unconditionally uncomment this line.
Huh, in that case wouldn't you just copy the kernel image from the source dir on machine y to whereever it needs to liveon machine x by hand? At least that's what I do, the Makefile and its INSTALL_PATH never comes into play then.