From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2: scripts/modpost.c
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 03:54:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040304035427.727d3353.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040304113749.GD5569@zonque.dyndns.org>
Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org> wrote:
>
> as I found out, it's impossible to use the build-chain tool scripts/modpost
> of the 2.6 kernel series to externally build modules from a directory that
> contains the character sequence '.o'. Weird things happen if you try to do
> so.
>
> With a directory structure like on my system here, building the current DVB
> driver in '/home/daniel/cvs.linuxtv.org/dvb-kernel/build-2.6i/' generates a
> file called '/home/daniel/cvs.linuxtv.mod.c' since modpost cuts every
> filename string at the first occurence of '.o', not only the 'trailing .o',
> as the comment says.
I tried your patch the other day and had weird compilation errors with x86
allyesconfig. Could you check that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-04 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-04 11:37 [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2: scripts/modpost.c Daniel Mack
2004-03-04 11:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-04 13:01 ` Daniel Mack
2004-03-11 0:40 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-11 5:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
[not found] <20040304172923.6045760e.rddunlap@osdl.org>
2004-03-05 5:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-03-05 6:16 ` Tony Breeds
2004-03-05 12:36 ` Daniel Mack
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