Re: building compat-wireless for other than running kernels

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Natanael Copa<natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to create a compat-wireless package for Alpine Linux. I get
>> errors like this:
>> FATAL: Could not load
>> /lib/modules/2.6.29.4-vs2.3.0.36.14-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or
>> directory
>> This comes from the fact that the package is not for the current running kernel.
...
>> Alternatively you could define a DEPMOD=/sbin/depmod in the Makefile
>> so its possible to override it with: make DEPMOD=: ...
>
> Patches are welcomed. I considered just now added the depmod stuff you
> mentioned but remembered that there are also scripts which may use
> this on compat-wireless. We could just export it though and then all
> the scripts would have access to it -- but note that it means then
> that you'd need the Makefile to run certain scripts -- and if you
> don't you have to define your own depmod. Because of this I welcome
> your patches on this if you test it.

That explains why I saw the error message even with my patch. For my
use the scripts are not critical as they don't exit with error and
make just continues. I do have an idea how to fix that too though.

I also have some simple fix to split the install so you can easily
have multiple binary packages for different kernel flavors but still
share the userspace scripts.

Thanks!

-- 
Natanael Copa