[PVFS2-developers] [PATCH] Makefile.in:Use prefix in kmod_install and kmod24_install

[Robert Latham]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:31:42PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote:
> Trivial patch for makefile.in (works against current CVS and 1.0.1)
> that makes kmod_install and kmod24_install use prefix.

Hi Lars

I've taken a slightly different approach.  I know using $prefix makes
things easy if you are making an .rpm or .deb, but if you are building
from a tarball, the kernel module will end up in a nonstandard place.

What i've done instead is let people provide a 'kmod_path' when they
run 'make kmod_install', which will put the kernel module somewhere
else.

% make kmod_prefix=/tmp/blah kmod_install
install -m 755 src/apps/kernel/linux/pvfs2-client-core src/apps/kernel/linux/pvfs2-client /home/robl/work/soft/pvfs2/sbin
install -d /tmp/blah/lib/modules/2.6.11.11/kernel/fs
install -m 755 src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2.ko /tmp/blah/lib/modules/2.6.11.11/kernel/fs

i.e. binaries (pvfs2-client and pvfs2-client-core) use $prefix, and
kernel modules use $kmod_prefix.

I'm taking the easy way out and not making this a configure-time
settting.  I'm assuming the only people who might want to install a
kernel module in a nonstandard place are packagers, whom I trust can
add 'kmod_path=/some/preferred/path' to their packaging scripts. 

Comments?  It's been a long time since i had to worry about making
rpms so I might be overlooking something important for packagers.

==rob

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Rob Latham
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