Re: Building additional kernel drivers with Debian kernel-source

[Stephen Cormier <s.cormier@gmx.net>]

On August 14, 2004 01:38 pm, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 16:11, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > On August 14, 2004 10:59 am, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > > DirectFB requires to build the kernel fusion driver from source.
> > > It therefore needs a symlink "/lib/modules/2.4.26-1-k7/build"
> > > which points to the right location in the the kernel tree.
> > > Neither installing the appropriate kernel-header nor the
> > > kernel-source package installs this symlink. How can I manually
> > > add this link?
> > >
> > > See
> > > "http://www.directfb.org/mailinglists/directfb-dev/2004/08-2004/m
> > >sg00 047 .html".
> > >
> > > O. Wyss
> >
> > I do seem to remember reading somewhere that you link the kernel
> > headers directory to the build one so try ln
> > -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-k7
> > /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-k7/build.
>
> It is not a good idea to do that, because the machine you are
> building the kernel on doesn't have to be the same machine, that the
> kernel-module is intended for.
>
> You have the path to the needed kernel-source or kerne-headers in
> $(KSRC). Use it. Either you need to modify DirectFB's makefile or
> specify the variable on make.
>
> Like: $(MAKE) -C $(CURDIR) KERNELPATH=$(KSRC)
>
> That requires of course, that the makefile is looking for the
> variable KERNELPATH and let that override the path to the symlink
> instead.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martin List-Petersen

Please do not CC me I read this list obviously and did not ask for it 
when offering information I had read somewhere to help the OP. 

Stephen