On Tuesday 19 April 2005 17:27, yinyang wrote: > Hi! > > In the User-Mode-Linux-HOWTO, the section of compiling and installing > kernel modules discriptes those: "If you try building an external module > against a UML tree, you will find that it doesn't compile because of > missing includes. There are less obvious problems with the CFLAGS that the > module Makefile or script provides which would make it not run even if it > did build. To get around this, you need to provide the same CFLAGS that the > UML kernel build uses. > > A reasonably slick way of getting the UML CFLAGS is > cd uml-tree ; make script '[EMAIL PROTECTED] $(CFLAGS)' ARCH=um > > > If the module build process has something that looks like > > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) file > then you can define CFLAGS in a script like this > > CFLAGS=`cd uml-tree ; make script '[EMAIL PROTECTED] $(CFLAGS)' ARCH=um` > > and like this in a Makefile > > CFLAGS=$(shell cd uml-tree ; make script '[EMAIL PROTECTED] $(CFLAGS)' > ARCH=um)" > > I know this method is works well with kernel 2.4, but how can do with > kernel 2.6? Thanks!! 2.6 has explicit support for building external modules (it is explained in the Documentation/kbuild directory, or on some http://lwn.net/Kernel articles).
It will work for UML as it does for any architecture. Regards -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality designed to reduce time involved in creating, integrating, and deploying reporting solutions. Free runtime info, new features, or free trial, at: http://www.businessobjects.com/devxi/728 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
