On Thursday 25 March 2004 17:40, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:07 PM 3/25/2004 +0100, pa3gcu wrote: > >On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:42, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > In fact, it should read > > > > > > EXTRAVERSION =-k7 > > > > > > (without the space before the hyphen). > > > >No sorry Ray its not a typo, its how it should be a as matter of fact, > >It possably works without a white space but AFAIK white spaces are > > ignored. > > > >If for example you look into any Topdir Makefile you will note that lines > > 1, 2, and 3 have white spaces after the = and the 4th line should comply > > as well or so i was once told. > > Have you tried it, though? I recall actually having that problem once, > though quite a few years ago (that is, back whenever it was I first used > the EXTRAVERSION setting with my kernels). The prior three lines did get > any spaces cleaned out, but as I recall, EXTRAVERSION was handled > differently.
I always use that method, yes it works and whats more i always use it that way, i use it that way because i was told to do so many moons ago when the EXTRAVERTION was first introduced into the Makefile, i was told that by its authour. > I specifically saw the problem as an inability to load modules, because the > embedded space in the modules directory didn't work with the Debian init > script that loads modules. Now that i cant understand, anyway strange things can and i suppose will always happen. > > It's been a long time since I saw this problem, though, and it is certainly > possible that my memory is wrong, or that Makefile processing has changed > along the way ... and I'm unwilling to take the time to compile a kernel > just to see what happens. I did look, though, and confirmed that all my > kernel Makefile entries for EXTRAVERSION follow the form I suggest. Like i said they both work. > > In any case, I don't actually know if this has anything to do with > Karthik's problem, whichever of us is correct. No i dont think so as you can read in my reply to that mail later. -- If the Linux community is a bunch of theives because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
