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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix detection of kernel source directory
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:31:37 +0200
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To: James Pike <james@chilon.net>
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James Pike wrote:
> Fix detection of kernel source directory when it is different to build
> directory.
> Signed-off-by: James Pike <james@chilon.net>
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index e01ba98..c3b7a5f 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ arch=${arch%%-*}
>  
>  # see if we have split build and source directories
>  if [ -d "$kerneldir/include2" ]; then
> -    kernelsourcedir=${kerneldir%/*}/source
> +    kernelsourcedir=`readlink -f $kerneldir/source`
>  fi
>  
>  if [ -n "$no_uname" -a "$want_module" ]; then

So far I can't reproduce any problem that the above could fix, but maybe
Avi sees why we need it and that it doesn't regress elsewhere.

Jan