[Asterisk-Dev] Makefile in Fedora Core 3 (kernel source not required!)

[Joshua M. Thompson]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 10:17 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 03 December 2004 09:58, Schaefer, Mark wrote:
> > 	I just found a howto on Fedora Core 3 that says that kernel sources are
> > not required to build modules.  Please reference
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc3/x86 in the package specific
> > notes under kernel.  Basically, the kernels (and I think the older versions
> > of Fedora do this as well) install a /lib/modules/.../build directory that
> > has all the headers required to build modules.  A Makefile sample is shown
> > that could be used - I made a quick change to the Makefile under zaptel and
> > it worked without a flaw.  I'm not sure I'm qualified to submit the patch,
> > though.
> 
> If people were only using Fedora Core3 with Asterisk, that would be an easy
> patch to make.   However, many people are using other distributions.  You'd
> have to ensure that your fix worked on all of them, or else this just wouldn't
> be practical.

This is actually a generic 2.6 kernel thing and not specific to Fedora
Core. There was a already a patch for this added to CVS in fact.

-- 
Joshua M. Thompson <funaho at jurai.org>