Installation of kernel symbols file in a separate directory [Was: Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2]

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 28/09/2011 07:23 Arnaud Lacombe said the following:
>> available here:
>>
>> https://github.com/lacombar/freebsd/commit/c1d5c4857361028dc40941273dd2ab9576c687fd
>>
>> This patch adds a KODIR_SYMBOLS variables which is to the kernel and
>> modules .symbols files what the KODIR variable is to the kernel and
>> modules files. By default ${KODIR_SYMBOLS} = ${KODIR}.
>
> I think that this patch doesn't cover the case of doing make install in a module
> directory (i.e. module built/installed independently from a kernel).
> KMODDIR_SYMBOLS should have a default value like KMODDIR does (in bsd.own.mk).
>
that's trivial to fix. As I won't commit that anyway, and the patch
will not be taken as-is, feel free to make the change. Still, I may
end-up doing it by myself when I'll need it.

 - Arnaud

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> Andriy Gapon
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