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Once upon a time Sunday 25 April 2004 9:05 am, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As Warren asked, I report a failure to build a module as a non root user
> with kernel 2.6.5-1.327, as a follow up on bug
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117645
>
> It has improved a lot though. Now the compilation seems to be done right,
> but stage 2 fails.
>
> As a user, I get:
>
> CC [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eu_eth.o
> LD [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eagle-usb.o
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST
> /bin/sh: line 1: ./.__modpost.cmd: Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
My understanding of how modules are built in 2.6 kernels and definetly from
my experience the user building modules needs write access to the kernel
source tree to be able to build modules succesfully. and your errors are
consistent with what i have experienced the only way as a user to build is to
change the owner to yourself of the tree or give all write access to the tree
Dennis
> And as root it is:
>
> CC [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eu_eth.o
> LD [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eagle-usb.o
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST
> LD [M] /home/pat/src/eagleusb/driver/eagle-usb.ko
>
> I attached the full make output. make.pat as a user, make.root as root.
>
> Pat
You can get past the .__modpost.cmd problem by symlinking it
to /dev/null:
cd /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.332/build
ln -sf /dev/null .__modpost.cmd
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David T Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com>