The header install makefile creates an 'include' directory inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and appending include to the path results in headers being installed to include/include. Don't recommend appending include to the path as makefile already does this. Signed-off-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt index 951eb9f..f0153ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The "make headers_install" command can be run in the top level directory of the kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build). It takes two optional arguments: - make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include + make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the current architecture. The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers @@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ the command: ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//' -INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to -"./usr/include". +INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to +"./usr". + +An 'include' directory is automatically created inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and +headers are installed in 'INSTALL_HDR_PATH/include'. The command "make headers_install_all" exports headers for all architectures simultaneously. (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers, -- 2.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
