Re: build -->/usr/src/linux

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Marvin Stodolsky  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Thanks for responding.  But I would still like to understand what the
>functionality is of the build --> /usr/src/linuc.  Is it dispensable,
>once the module tree has been installed? 

It's needed for modules that are distributed sperately, so that
they can use cc -I /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include

Or even

	l=`pwd`
	cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
	make $l/module.o

.. but there should be a cleaner way to get at the CFLAGS used
to compile the kernel.

Mike.