Ed W wrote: > It would appear that there is something broken with the current Makefile > when crosscompiling - I need a bit of help figuring out a proper solution. > > In this case it's barely cross compiling, I just want to use a kernel I > compiled somewhere, but isn't installed (I'm also in a chroot). > According to the docs (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download) I > should do something like: > > make KLIB=/home/mcgrof/kernels/linux-2.6.27.22 \ > KLIB_BUILD=/home/mcgrof/kernels/linux-2.6.27.22 > > However, the makefile then installs the files in completely the wrong > location, eg the following puts the files in > /usr/src/linux/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-grsec-wrap/ !! > > make KLIB=/usr/src/linux \ > KLIB_BUILD=/usr/src/linux install-modules > > So KLIB should apparently be something like /lib/modules/xyz. However, > this is still wrong because the line below puts the files in: > /lib/modules/2.6.30.5-grsec-wrap/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-grsec-wrap/ > > make KLIB=/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-grsec-wrap/ \ > KLIB_BUILD=/usr/src/linux install-modules > > > Adding unsetting KMODPATH_ARG seems to do the trick (but seems unintended?): > > make KLIB=/lib/modules/2.6.30.5-grsec-wrap/ \ > KLIB_BUILD=/usr/src/linux KMODPATH_ARG= install-modules > > > But I still get repeated errors while building (where this is the > currently running kernel, but the modules dir is unavailable in this > chroot): > > FATAL: Could not load > /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-grsec2.1.14-vs2.3.0.36.14/modules.dep: No such > file or directory > FATAL: Could not load > /lib/modules/2.6.29.6-grsec2.1.14-vs2.3.0.36.14/modules.dep: No such > file or directory > > > This appears to be caused by these lines at the top of the makefile: > MADWIFI=$(shell $(MODPROBE) -l ath_pci) > OLD_IWL=$(shell $(MODPROBE) -l iwl4965) > > Clearly these need some parametrisation to include the running kernel > name. Something like this might pluck out the correct > uname: > KERNELRELEASE = $(cat $(KLIB_BUILD)/include/config/kernel.release 2> > /dev/null) > > > I'm not quite clear what all the KLIB/KLIB_BUILD vars are supposed to be > achieving, but at present they aren't working correctly when overridden > to build a non installed kernel. I'm surprised more people aren't > hitting this? > > Grateful if someone with a bit more experience could suggest a proper fix? > > Thanks > > Ed W > Try the patch I posted a few weeks ago. It solved this issue for us. -Philip -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
