From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263120AbTIVMFa (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:05:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263121AbTIVMFa (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:05:30 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:56026 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263120AbTIVMF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:05:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16238.58754.128179.710670@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:05:22 +0200 From: Mikael Pettersson To: rob@landley.net Cc: azarah@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rddunlap@osdl.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: Make modules_install doesn't create /lib/modules/$version In-Reply-To: <200309220655.43275.rob@landley.net> References: <200309192139.h8JLdaXf012418@harpo.it.uu.se> <200309220655.43275.rob@landley.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.