Some distributions aim at shipping all files in /usr. The path under which kernel modules are installed is hardcoded to /lib which conflicts with this goal. When kmod provides kmod.pc, use it to determine the correct module installation path. With kmod that does not provide the config /lib/modules is used as before. While pkg-config does not return an error when a variable does not exist the kmod configure script puts some effort into ensuring that module_directory is non-empty. With that empty module_directory from pkg-config can be used to detect absence of the variable. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx> --- v6: - use ?= instead of := to make it easier to override the value - use shorter expression for determining the module directory assuming it's non-empty --- Makefile | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 511b5616aa41..84f32bd563d4 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1081,7 +1081,9 @@ export INSTALL_DTBS_PATH ?= $(INSTALL_PATH)/dtbs/$(KERNELRELEASE) # makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed. # -MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE) +export KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY ?= $(or $(shell pkg-config --variable=module_directory kmod 2>/dev/null),/lib/modules) + +MODLIB = $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)$(KERNEL_MODULE_DIRECTORY)/$(KERNELRELEASE) export MODLIB PHONY += prepare0 -- 2.42.0
