linux-kernel - Re: missing elfconfig.h

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Message-ID: <20070609085459.GC30611@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:54:59 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Rich Chase <rac47.02@...alumni.colostate.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: missing elfconfig.h

On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 03:57:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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?
> 
> technically, you want to run "make modules_prepare" on the tree, after
> doing a configuration.

Yep - had forgotten about that target.
Was you btw. planning to write up a kbuild HOWTO one day?

It would be nice to point to some kind of docs for such questions.

	Sam
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