Thanks Akemi for the suggestions (to a SL/rhel newbie :) -- will do both.
On 3/1/14, Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Boryeu Mao <[email protected]> wrote: >> Summary of building cloop >> >> The build from the alioth source tar (thanks for the pointer Vladimir) >> turns out to be rather straightforward, with only one minor hurdle >> when the configuration script quit with an error message that 'the >> zlib library is required'. I was stumped because rpm query showed >> that the package zlib is installed in the system (livecd-iso-to-disk >> from SL-65-x86_64-liveDVD.iso). After a bit of wild goose chase I >> discovered serendipitously that the missing party was actually zlib.h >> (in package zlib-devel). The build went on uneventfully afterwards, >> for both the kernel module and the 3 utility programs. For modprobe >> to find the module, I placed it in /lib/modules/`uname >> -r`/kernel/misc/. > > May I suggest that you put your module in /lib/modules/`uname > -r`/extra/ to make it distinct from the distro-supplied ones. > > Another suggestion is to consider making a kABI-tracking (kmod) > package. This way, you would not have to rebuild for each kernel > update. > > Akemi >
