On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:10:31PM -0600, Jerry DeLapp wrote: > As I work through getting 3.5.x to build on debian stable, I hit a problem. > The main Makefile does a make ... modules_install just after it runs mklibs. > Since debian stable is a 2.4.x system, it doesn't have module-init-tools > installed, and the Makefile detonates there. > > If I install module-init-tools from backport.org, the install succeeds, and > then the very next thing that happens is that the make proceedure starts > building module-init-tools from the source in the initrd_source tree. > > So, it looks like there's an ordering problem in the build. That is, if > module-init-tools were built from source and used to do modules_install, the > build could succeed without having to resort to backport.org. > > I'm wondering if someone more familiar with that part of the build (Brian?, > Dann?) could comment on this. > > Is fixing it as simple as moving module-init-tools from initrd_source to src > and installing it in the boel_binaries tarball prior to the modules_install?
I wouldn't try building this on debian stable, which is really old.
This should build on any newer distro. I was using SLES9 on ppc, and FC3 &
MDK 10.1 on i386.
-Sean
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