On 08/22/2018 11:53 AM, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > This patch requires that /sbin/depmod is installed and installable on > the build host. > > But not all build hosts for cross compiling Linux are Linux systems > and are able to provide a working port of depmod, especially at the > file patch /sbin/depmod. > > I use, for example, a Darwin system to cross compile Linux and I run > depmod -a on the embedded system once, after installing a new Linux > kernel there. > > I have no problem with seeing a warning, but aborting the build process > is IMHO a bad idea since the previous behaviour didn't harm many people > as far as I see. Probably 99% of people compiling Linux kernels do that > on Linux and 99% of those have depmod installed for optimal operation of > their build host. So IMHO printing the warning is good enough. Thanks for the report and sorry about the problem. I'm OK with changing the error to a warning. Does the patch below work for you? thanks. --- From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> When $DEPMOD is not found, only print a warning instead of exiting with an error message and error status. E.g.: Warning: 'make modules_install' requires /sbin/depmod. Please install it. This is probably in the kmod package. ../scripts/depmod.sh: line 44: /sbin/depmod: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [/home/rdunlap/lnx/lnx-418/Makefile:1244: _modinst_post] Error 127 make: *** [Makefile:146: sub-make] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/depmod.sh | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- lnx-418.orig/scripts/depmod.sh +++ lnx-418/scripts/depmod.sh @@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then fi if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then - echo "'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2 + echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2 echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2 - exit 1 fi # older versions of depmod require the version string to start with three
