Re: Make modules_install doesn't create /lib/modules/$version

[Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>]

Rob Landley writes:
 > > depmod does not create any directories, 'make modules_install' does.
 > 
 > Although make install dies on a red hat 9 system trying to look at the modules 
 > directory if modules_install isn't done first.  Maybe it's an RH 9 bug.  I 

RH9's /sbin/installkernel tries to run /sbin/new-kernel-pkg in order to
build a new initrd. This will almost certainly fail if your modules
directory isn't already populated at this point.

make modules_install; make install
in that order solves the problem.

If you don't like RH's installkernel then you can always write
your own and put it in ~/bin. That's what I did a long time ago
to make it lilo-friendly. (RH prefers that POS grub.)

 > install" now, yet make install doesn't install modules.  Is there a reason 
 > make install does NOT install modules for a modular kernel?

It hasn't before. I doubt very many people have a major problem with it.