Re: [rock-user] Compilation of a static kernel

Clifford Wolf <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Nov 2005 19:10:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:51:07PM +0100, Blacky wrote:
> All done, it builds the kernel as static. However, the Build-Pkg "fails" to 
> build modules as it discovers no module support.

yep. package/base/linux/linux.conf (around line 486) does build the modules
unconditionally:

	echo "Building the modules ..."
	eval $MAKE modules
	echo "Installing the modules ..."
	[...]

feel free to send a patch to and an if block here which checks if the
kernel actually has module support.

yours,
 - clifford

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