Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sep 5 2007 05:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>that doesn't solve the problem.  i should have mentioned that i
>already (unnecessarily, i suggest) ran "make modules_prepare", but the
>problem persists.
>
>the issue seems to be that running that last make command to build the
>module visor.ko doesn't somehow signal the Makefile that this is a
>*module* build, and therefore no module-related initialization is
>done, such as creating that directory or setting the Makefile variable
>MODVERDIR, etc, etc.

ah... make M=drivers/foo/bar/
it builds the whole directory, but at least it builds it.


>
>once you've build at least one module successfully, then the directory
>.tmp_versions exists so future module builds will work fine.  it's
>only when you do a clean, *immediately* followed by trying to do an
>in-tree module build, that this is going to bite you.

	Jan
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