[linux-dvb] Re: SV: SV: Re: Compilation under RedHat 8.0

["Franck Arnaud" <franck@nenie.org>]

Jean-Michel POURE:

> This is the first time I encouter an installation script without a
> configure first. Is this usual with kernel modules? I am pretty new, maybe
> I miss something.

People don't usually compile modules without the corresponding kernel 
source,
drivers are supposed to come with the kernel, so there's little incentive 
to do polished compilation scripts (once a driver is polished, it's in 
the kernel!) it is a pain but all drivers I've compiled have been like 
that in some way, actually the DVB drivers seems quite good compared to 
others. Still, you can usually compile with just headers though after a 
bit of poking around.

As for configure, this usually comes from the "autoconf" package 
whose aim is to detect platform, compiler differences which is useless 
for kernel modules: platform, you know it's Linux, no need to find which 
compiler you are using, only gcc compiles the kernel, no need to find 
which libxxx you're using, the kernel of course the kernel does not 
depend on shared libraries. So I guess there's little you could do with 
autoconf for modules.

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franck@nenie.org



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