>Can someone help me out with building some linux modules?
>
>I pulled down xen-2.0-testing-src.tgz from the website yesterday. I
>unzipped it and ran make world, then make install. I''ve rebooted
and my
>system seems ok.
>
>Now I''m trying to get smbmount to work.
>
>I ran: make ARCH=xen menuconfig and turned on the M for SMBFS and CIFS.
>
>Now I''ve tried running:
>
>make ARCH=xen modules
>make world
>make install
I assume you''re talking about typing these at the root of the tree
(i.e the directory that contains xen/, linux-2.6.11-xen-sparse/, etc)
"make world" blows away all your kernel build trees (and hence your
modified config). It''s only really an ok thing to use the first
time you build xen/xenlinux (or after a major change).
Use "make dist" instead for normal use. One thing this will do is
copy linux-2.6.11-xen0/.config to dist/install/boot/config-2.6.11.10-xen0
and linux-2.6.11-xenU/.config to dist/install/boot/config-2.6.11.10-xenU
"make world" will also do this (since it ultimately calls "make
dist")
but only after blowing away your linux-2.6.11-xen{0,U} build trees and
your config etc.
Anyway: once you''ve built everything at least once (either with
"make
world" for the first time or with "make dist" for the first or
any
subsequent time), then to build a ''custom'' kernel do:
# cd linux-2.6.11-xen0
# make ARCH=xen menuconfig # or xconfig or whatever
# cd ..
# make dist
this will rebuild the relevant parts and copy everything into
dist/install/boot/, INCLUDING the new configuration. Everything
will be fine providing you don''t use "make world".
Finally
# make install
will install the tools, xen itself, the kernels, and the modules
you''ve just built (assuming your example).
>OK, I just found this url:
>
>http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sgoyal/xen/install.html
>
>According to that page, I have to copy the twekaed kernel .config file
>to xen-2.0-testing/dist/install/boot and then run make world. I
didn''t
>see this anywhere else. Does this sound right to anyone?
Sort of:
- you need to copy the .config to the ''correct'' name in
dist/install/boot/
(see above); this will then get copied /back/ to the brand new linux
build tree created by "make world"; and
- "make world" is overkill (i.e. the wrong thing to run); use
"make
dist" instead.
In a nutshell: don''t use "make world"; it only makes sense
when tracking
bitkeeper, and even then only when the sparse trees get changed radically.
If you''re using a tarball, just stick with "make dist".
hope this helps,
cheers,
S.
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