Re: module-init-tools don't support gzipped modules.

From: Pawel Kot (pkot@linuxnews.pl)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 04:52:28 EST


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:

> > [kaos@ocs.com.au]
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:46:23 +1000,
> > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > >I don't want to require zlib, though. The modutils I have (Debian)
> > >doesn't support it, either.
> >
> > Really? modutils 2.4: ./configure --enable-zlib
>
> Keith, I believe Rusty meant the standard Debian package had binaries
> compiled w/o '--enable-zlib'.
>
> (And so has Slackware btw.)

Slackware since 8.0 uses compression for the kernel modules by
default and uses --enable-zlib for modutils.
See:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/source/a/modutils/modutils.SlackBuild

pkot

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