[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Is gentoo the way to go?

Mike Frisch mfrisch at isurfer.ca
Thu Nov 3 13:36:33 EST 2005


On Thu, November 3, 2005 1:13 pm, Trey Boudreau said:
> I did run into a problem installing kernel modules compiled outside of
> the header-source tree of the as-installed kernel.  In particular
>
> 	make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=$PWD modules_install
>
> fails because the Makefile doesn't have EXTRAVERSION set properly and so
> places the built modules in the wrong directory.  They have a
> .extraversion file, but kbuild doesn't use it.  I suspect people
> building DVB modules outside of the kernel will have this problem unless
> they first rebuild and install the kernel from source.

Yes, you're right.  I forgot all about that issue.  Ubuntu could use a
little help with respect to building custom kernels.



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