On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:47 +1000, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Once upon a time Sunday 25 April 2004 9:05 am, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As Warren asked, I report a failure to build a module as a non root user > > with kernel 2.6.5-1.327, as a follow up on bug > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117645 > > > > It has improved a lot though. Now the compilation seems to be done right, > > but stage 2 fails. > > > > As a user, I get: > > > > CC [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eu_eth.o > > LD [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eagle-usb.o > > Building modules, stage 2. > > MODPOST > > /bin/sh: line 1: ./.__modpost.cmd: Permission denied > > make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > > make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 > My understanding of how modules are built in 2.6 kernels and definetly from > my experience the user building modules needs write access to the kernel > source tree to be able to build modules succesfully. and your errors are > consistent with what i have experienced the only way as a user to build is to > change the owner to yourself of the tree or give all write access to the tree > > Dennis > > > And as root it is: > > > > CC [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eu_eth.o > > LD [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eagle-usb.o > > Building modules, stage 2. > > MODPOST > > LD [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eagle-usb.ko > > > > I attached the full make output. make.pat as a user, make.root as root. > > > > Pat You can get past the .__modpost.cmd problem by symlinking it to /dev/null: cd /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.332/build ln -sf /dev/null .__modpost.cmd -- David T Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
