sven.wegener at stealer
Jul 15, 2007, 8:31 AM
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Re: [PATCH] Change default KERNEL_DIR location and add KBUILD_OUTPUT
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 04:34:24PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Sven Wegener wrote:
> > Setting KERNEL_DIR to the build symlink in /lib/modules is wrong. The
> > build symlink points to the location of generated object files and the
> > extension tests use KERNEL_DIR to check the availability of certain
> > source files.
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> Good point.
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> > The tests will fail, if build and source point to
> > different locations. Change KERNEL_DIR from build to source and
> > introduce KBUILD_OUTPUT for the build symink.
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> What do we need KBUILD_OUTPUT for? Just the source tree should be enough.
For current kernels, true. Older kernels (before 2006-04-26) and the
whole 2.6.16.y series have a bug where include/linux/netfilter_ipv4.h
includes linux/config.h which includes linux/autoconf.h which is placed
into KBUILD_OUTPUT. Just changing KERNEL_DIR from build to source should
be enough for recent kernels. For older kernels building the iptables
package will fail with "linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory"
unless we add the KBUILD_OUTPUT bit. That's why I added it. Do we want
to have this workaround here?
Sven
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iptables-kbuild-output.patch
