I see. Well, MODPREF controls where the modules get installed. That should be the same as the kernel that we compiled against, which is the one defined in LINUX:= . So don't you think MODPREF should do the "-L" thing? But I don't know what happens if we default to /usr/src/linux... Jean Delvare wrote: > > > why did you back out MODPREF in the makefiles? > > I liked it the way it was... is there any way to keep > > $KERNELVERSION??? > > The new way doesn't work anymore since I modified the LINUX := lines. If > the build symlink was not found, it would use /usr/src/linux as the base > source tree but would install the modules in > /lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION, which may not match the version present in > /usr/src/linux. > > An alternative is to use the same "if [ -L ... ]" thing for MODPREF as I > used for LINUX. I can do it if you really want me to do so, but frankly, > I don't see the idea. The way things are right now work, so? > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
