04-09-2007, Robert P. J. Day: > > i swear, this just never seems to work for me. according to greg > kh's book "linux kernel in a nutshell", Heh, mr. Hartman... While getting old, everybody tend to write something, but in this case this and LDD3 is just making money, if any (IMHO). So, lets study not what to think, but how to think :) > the way to build a single module is simply (for example): > > $ make drivers/usb/serial/visor.ko OK, building modules in src tree, O= tree, externally works for me, and i guess, i've helped once in LKML to get this right. > for the life of me, i can't get that to work. it *will* build a > file visor.o, but that's not what i'm after, i want the final visor.ko > module file. > > am i doing something exceedingly silly? thanks. > > rday > It's 2.6.18, but i doubt current mainline have any kbuild changes. Don't know, what's wrong with `.tmp_versions', but anyway: -*- shell -*- <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ export LANG=C <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ make clean make -C /mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18 O=/mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz clean CLEAN .tmp_versions <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ make modules_prepare make -C /mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18 O=/mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz modules_prepare Using/mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18assourceforkernel GEN /mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc CC arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s GEN include/asm-x86_64/asm-offsets.h HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/lex.o HOSTCC scripts/genksyms/parse.o HOSTLD scripts/genksyms/genksyms CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost HOSTCC scripts/kallsyms HOSTCC scripts/conmakehash HOSTCC scripts/bin2c <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ stat drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko stat: cannot stat `drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko': No such file or directory <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ make drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko make -C /mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18 O=/mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko Using/mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18assourceforkernel GEN /mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h CC [M] drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.o /bin/sh: cannot create .tmp_versions/ti_usb_3410_5052.mod: Directory nonexistent make[3]: *** [drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.o] Error 2 make[2]: *** [drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko] Error 2 make: *** [drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko] Error 2 <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ mkdir .tmp_versions <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ make drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko make -C /mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18 O=/mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko Using/mnt/work/root-fs/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18assourceforkernel GEN /mnt/work/pc/src-build/debian/linux-kernel/blinuz/Makefile CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h MODPOST CC drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.mod.o LD [M] drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ stat drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko File: `drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.ko' Size: 77641 Blocks: 152 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 303h/771d Inode: 109144660 Links: 1 Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: (19810702/ olecom) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-09-04 22:01:45.778667500 +0200 Modify: 2007-09-04 22:01:45.778667500 +0200 Change: 2007-09-04 22:01:45.778667500 +0200 <olecom@flower>debian/blinuz$ -- -o--=O`C #oo'L O <___=E M -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
