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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Building custom kernel modules (e.g. VHBA for CDEmu)
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:49:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7h734vy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg13cplw.fsf@bababa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:42:03 +0100")

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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> The only thing we need, beside a C compiler, is this KDIR, which on Guix
> _could_ be found at
>
>   /gnu/store/…-linux-libre-5.0.1/lib/modules/5.0.1/build
>
> Sadly, for us it's a dangling link to
> /tmp/guix-build-linux-libre-5.0.1.drv-0/linux-5.0.1.
>
> I presume that the answer is simple: replace the link with the folder.
> But that would eat up significantly more disk space.  So we could
> replace the link with a link to a new "build" output of the linux-libre
> package, which would contain this "build" folder.

If that's all it takes, then it makes sense to me.  Do we have any
experienced kernel hackers on the list who can comment more on this?

-- 
Chris

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-03  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-25  8:42 Building custom kernel modules (e.g. VHBA for CDEmu) Pierre Neidhardt
2019-04-03  7:49 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2019-04-03  8:09   ` Pierre Neidhardt

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