Re: [PATCH] kvm-userspace: fix module build with --kerneldir

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

Excerpts from Avi Kivity's message of Qua Nov 26 14:00:42 -0200 2008:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Avi Kivity wrote:
<snip>
> >> If the user specified $kerneldir, it should be in the form
> >> /lib/modules/$version/build, no?
> >>     
> >
> > This is not sufficiently generic. KVM should to accept arbitrary paths
> > to kernel directories, not just those special links (which could cause
> > problems anyway if the link is set up for the target and makes no sense
> > on the build host).
> >
> >   
> 
> Fair enough.  This seems to work:
> 
>     awk ' / = / { a[$1] = $3 } END { printf("%s.%s.%s%s\n", 
> a["VERSION"], a["PATCHLEVEL"], a["SUBLEVEL"], a["EXTRAVERSION"]) }' 
> "$kerneldir/Makefile"

What if CONFIG_LOCALVERSION is set?

> 
> Or alternatively
> 
>  awk '/Linux kernel version/ { print $NF }' "$kerneldir/.config"

What about `cat "$kerneldir/include/config/kernel.release"`?
-- 
Eduardo