Hi Michael,

Thanks for pointing this out! I applied the fix you prescribed to CVS.

Michael

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:32:05PM -0400, Michael Stroucken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When trying to compile the pvfs 2.8.2 module for a new kernel as a 
> debian package, I was getting the module destined to a subdirectory in 
> the current kernel's modules. Apparently, the kmod_install target in 
> Makefile.in uses the directory generated just above, where the variable 
> KERNEL_VERS is set to `uname -r` in case of fallthrough. Indeed, 
> kernel/include/version.h does not contain UTS_RELEASE, which the script 
> is looking for.
> 
> According to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206158
> 
> the Linux developers have moved the location of UTS_RELEASE to 
> kernel/include/utsrelease.h.
> 
> Once I edited the makefile, the debian package was built properly.
> 
> I see the problem has come up before, but as of now, there is only a 
> check in configure.in to determine 2.6 or 2.4, but no change in Makefile.in.
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael.
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