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

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 03 December 2004 10:27, Joshua M. Thompson wrote:
> 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.

I'm sure that will work just peachy for people still running 2.4.

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Tilghman