Hi, On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:44:41PM -0500, Jason Edgecombe wrote: >> So actually this means that the error is a followup from the warning >> about a missing Module.symvers. :( >> >> Is there any way to create Module.symvers w/o building the whole >> kernel and its modules? Probably not. :( :( :( >> >> Would it make sense to patch the check to always fail find_task_pid (on >> all RHEL/Fedora platforms) as a workaround? >> >> Thanks! >> > Hi Axel, > > I had a problem where doing a "make prepare" on the kernel tree was not > enough to build openafs for the Nokia tablets. The solution was to run > "make modules_prepare" in the kernel tree before configuring & compiling > openafs. "make modules_prepare" saved me from having to do a full kernel > compile. > > FYI, "make modules_prepare" was preceeded by a "make n800_defconfig" > which should map to something in the redhat kernel build; I just don't > know what. > > Thanks go to Simon for helping me discover "make modules_prepare".
Thanks for the hint, but it seems to just call make prepare and make
scripts. The documentation says:
--- 2.4 Preparing the kernel tree for module build
To make sure the kernel contains the information required to
build external modules the target 'modules_prepare' must be used.
'modules_prepare' exists solely as a simple way to prepare
a kernel source tree for building external modules.
Note: modules_prepare will not build Module.symvers even if
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is set. Therefore a full kernel build
needs to be executed to make module versioning work.
The GPL versioning seems to use Module.symvers, so there is no
shortcut to a full kernel build :(
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