From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265978AbUHFPSv (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:18:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265784AbUHFPSH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:18:07 -0400 Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.237]:29196 "EHLO pfepc.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266009AbUHFPQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:16:23 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 17:17:57 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: David Vrabel , Hollis Blanchard , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: cross-depmod? Message-ID: <20040806151757.GA7331@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Geert Uytterhoeven , David Vrabel , Hollis Blanchard , Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Development References: <1091742716.28466.27.camel@localhost> <411343F9.1080301@arcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:45:16PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, David Vrabel wrote: > > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > My problem is that I cross-build my kernels, and 'make rpm' is very > > > unhappy when it can't use depmod. I know that I can do 'make > > > DEPMOD=/bin/true rpm', but can't we figure that out automatically? > > > > I'd suggest not running depmod when building an RPM but instead run it > > as part of the RPMs post-installation script. > > I guess Hollis (just like me) is mostly interested in the possible error > messages of depmod, due to missing exported symbols. This is fixed in modpost so you actually now get a warning when modpost is executed. Sam