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

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:08:25 +0200

richard offer wrote:
> uname does not always provide useful information (cross compiling). Even
> if you're building the same ISA, you maybe in a chroot'ed environment.
>
> Can we please not assume that everybody only ever builds native...

Nobody is assuming that. If you're hard enough to do a cross compile,
you can build external modules using "make KERNEL_RELEASE=2.4.2
KERNEL_SOURCE=/home/jamie/cross_compiling/kernel ARCH=mips64" or
whatever.

-- Jamie
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