I'm a little confused about the reference to the running kernel? In any case, just a quick comment which may or may not conflict with what is being discussed: The kernel which the system happens to be running at the time we are building lm-sensors is completely unrelated to what we are building /against/ (or where we should install the resulting modules), right? Phil Jean Delvare wrote: >>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... >> >> > >If we default to /usr/src/linux, it means that we don't use the release >of the currently running version of Linux. So, KERNELVERSION is useless. >The only way we have to know where the modules should be installed is to >look in /usr/src/linux and see where this kernel has installed its >modules. This is exactly what is done right now. > >If we didn't default to /usr/src/linux, it means that we know where to >install the modules, and we could use KERNELVERSION. But, on the other >hand, we built LINUX from KERNELVERSION (through the build symlink), so >the method above will also work. > >I don't see the point in creating a complex expression that does >different things for these two cases when the first one will work for >both (and has obviously proven to work well for years). > > >
