Bug#345918: linux-2.6: modules do not install to correct folder in /lib/modu

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:40:25AM +0000, Richard Burton wrote:
> >> KDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/build
> >> modules: $(patsubst %.o,%.c,$(TP_MODULES))
> >>        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
> >> ...
> >> install: modules
> >>        rm -f /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel/$(MDIR)/{tp_base,tp_smapi}.ko
> >>        $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install
> >
> >We use $(MAKE) KSRC=/lib/modules/$(KVER)/build to build and install, i
> >believe. have you seen other modules and can you confirm they don't break 
> >or
> >something such ?
> 
> I'm sorry but I'm not quite sure what you mean.
> I've tried changing the above make calls to these:
> $(MAKE) KSRC=$(KDIR) modules
> $(MAKE) KSRC=$(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
> $(MAKE) KSRC=$(KDIR) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
> only the last of the 3 will build, and that still installs to the wrong 
> place again.
> 
> The original method does build fine, so I think for the most part make is 
> finding it's way into the right places, it's just the install step that 
> uses the wrong kernel name string for it's installation directory in 
> /lib/modules, so I'd think that however KSRC works we'd end up with the 
> same problem?
> 
> As I say I'm not sure that I've understood the KSRC variable, or quite 
> where to use it, so you may well be right about it.
> 
> Doing a bit of digging, I see that it comes down to the value of MODLIB in 
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-1-686/scripts/Makefile.modinst, this appears 
> to come from $KERNELRELEASE, which appears to be made up of 
> $(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)$(LOCALVERSION)
> 
> Calling 'make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/build kernelrelease' shows the 
> kernel release as 2.6.15, but shouldn't this show 2.6.15-1-686, (which is 
> defined for UTS_RELEASE in version.h)?

Well. ...

can you give the output of :

dpkg -l | grep linux-header

Please, the issue may be related to you not having the right header package
installed, or the header package being buggy, but i believe the first to be
the case. You need the per flavour linux-header package, which should include
a configured .config file, settign the $KERNELRELEASE variable to the right
thing, somwhere in this chain something may be wrong, either on your part or
ours.

Another try is :

apt-get source -b pwc

Friendly,

Sven Luther