Re: make install bug?

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 07 Apr 2002 01:50:47 +1000


On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:15:31 +0100,
Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> wrote:
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/VNetLinux/linux-2.4.18/arch/i386/lib'
>I'm not sure why this started happening, but it isn't nice
>behavior at all. I'd call it a bug as I can't imagine why
>I'd want a depmod to occur on the build machine.

depmod runs at build time as a courtesy, to build the modules.dep for
the initial boot, otherwise you get warning messages on the first boot
of a new kernel. For cross compiling or building for a different
machine, you can turn depmod into a no-op with make DEPMOD=/bin/true.

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