Jivin Jate Sujjavanich lays it down ...
> In the modules_install target, the current top level Makefile sets DEPMOD to 
> user/busybox/depmod.pl. The latest 2.4/2.6 kernels try to run this perl 
> script as depmod, but it's not compatible with the kernel's argument format.
> 
> This proposed patch disables the kernel's DEPMOD and runs the busybox script 
> separately.

Are you having problems with a kernel included with the uClinux-dist or one
that you have plgged in ?

It's just that we don't seem to be seeing this error here.

Can you elaborate of what the failure is or give us an error log ?

Thanks,
Davidm

> --- Makefile  11 May 2009 20:18:42 -0000      1.14
> +++ Makefile  28 May 2010 14:44:57 -0000
> @@ -202,7 +202,8 @@
>  modules_install:
>       . $(LINUXDIR)/.config; if [ "$$CONFIG_MODULES" = "y" ]; then \
>               [ -d $(ROMFSDIR)/lib/modules ] || mkdir -p 
> $(ROMFSDIR)/lib/modules; \
> -             $(MAKEARCH_KERNEL) -C $(LINUXDIR) INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(ROMFSDIR) 
> DEPMOD="../user/busybox/examples/depmod.pl" modules_install; \
> +             $(MAKEARCH_KERNEL) -C $(LINUXDIR) INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(ROMFSDIR) 
> DEPMOD="true" modules_install; \
> +             user/busybox/examples/depmod.pl -b $(ROMFSDIR)/lib/modules -F 
> $(LINUXDIR)/System.map; \
>               rm -f $(ROMFSDIR)/lib/modules/*/build; \
>               find $(ROMFSDIR)/lib/modules -type f -name "*o" | xargs -r 
> $(STRIP) -R .comment -R .note -g; \
>       fi

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David McCullough,      david_mccullo...@mcafee.com,  Ph:+61 734352815
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