[asterisk-dev] make install in zaptel copies modules to wrong location with Ubuntu 5.10

[Mike Fedyk]

North Antara wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did an install last week on Ubuntu 5.10 recently and when running make
>> install, instead of installing under /lib/modules/`uname -r` (which was
>> 2.6.12-9-686) it went in /lib/modules/2.6.12.
>>
>> I traced the issue to the call to "make modules_install" from the zaptel
>> Makefile to the packaged Makefile for the kernel in ubuntu.  It didn't
>> have $(EXTRAVERSION) defined properly.
>>
>> Now I'm no Makefile expert and I realize it is a bug in Ubuntu (and
>> possibly other distributions), but think there should be a work-around
>> in the zaptel Makefile.
>>
>> One possible solution is to just copy the kernel modules in the zaptel
>> Makefile instead of calling the kernel Makefile.  What do you think?
>>
>> Mike
>>     
>
> I've run across this a few times in #asterisk.  I believe the solution was
> to do something like: "KVERS=`uname -r` make install".  It's a bit of a
> hack, but...
It would have to override a variable defined in another Makefile 
(actually defined as empty).

Is this possible?