linux-kernel - Re: missing elfconfig.h

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706090358350.11073@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 9 Jun 2007 03:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Rich Chase <rac47.02@...alumni.colostate.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: missing elfconfig.h

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> On Jun 8 2007 22:19, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:08:36AM -0400, Rich Chase wrote:
> >> An Apparent bug:
> >> version 2.6.21.3
> >> missing the file ./scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
> >
> >To build an external module you need to point to a directory
> >where a fully build kernel is placed.
> >
> >You could do a full build and then a "make clean",
> >this would still let you build external modules.
>
> Is not "make prepare" enough?
>
> >In your case the kernel was not build.
> >And to build modpost you need to execute "make modules" from
> >the kernel top-level directory.
>
> "make scripts" ?

by the way, technically, you're right since, from the top-level
Makefile:

# Target to prepare building external modules
PHONY += modules_prepare
modules_prepare: prepare scripts

rday
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