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

[North Antara]

> 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...