Re: 2.1.94 modules catch-22

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
10 Apr 1998 00:53:02 GMT

Followup to: <6gjjin$7uu$1@orion.ens.fr>
By author: Thomas Pornin <bip@orion.ens.fr>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> In article <6gj50e$gs8$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
> >- modutils-2.1.85 won't build with recent 2.1.9x kernels (no
> > linux/kerneld.h file.)
>
> kerneld does not build, but insmod, modprobe, depmod do. As kerneld is
> not needed anymore, is this really a problem ? Sure, having an error
> in the make process is not elegant, but it nevertheless works, as far as
> I know...
>

It is if it keeps the other thing from building (and no, I don't
consider "use make -k and ignore the errors" acceptable.) I solved
the problem at my end by using the modutils-2.1.85 RPM, which
unfortunately has a bogus dependency on /bin/sh in it :(

-hpa

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