[maemo-developers] Linux kernel module autobuilding

[From: Jason Edgecombe]

Faheem Pervez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have you looked in the fuse source package that is on extras? That
> uses the rules file to get the kernel and build the fuse module from it.
>
> Regards,
> Faheem
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Danny Milosavljevic
> <danny.milo at scratchpost.org <mailto:danny.milo at scratchpost.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm trying to get my Option HSO Modem driver to autobuild on Diablo
>     builder for some time now. Thanks to everyone who helped me get so
>     far :)
>
>     Unfortunately, it seems a few assumptions by me are not held and
>     so the
>     build fails:
>
>     The reason it fails now is that there's no Linux kernel
>     source/workdir in
>     the usual place:
>
>     >make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/build: No such file or directory.
>     Stop.
>
>     (complete log <https://garage.maemo.org/builder/diablo/hso_1.2-0/
>     armel.build.log.FAILED.txt>)
>
>     Also, is there an environment variable specifying the kernel
>     version we
>     are supposed to build for? I just hardcoded
>     "LINUX_VERSION=2.6.21-omap1"
>     for now...
>
Check out the openafs source package as well. I also build the kernel
module on the fly in the autobuilder.

Jason