[ovs-discuss] kernel build dir != kernel src dir

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Jul 2 21:18:21 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 02:15:47PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:53:17PM -0700, Jad Naous wrote:
> > Sure! For opensuse, the source dir is /usr/src/linux and the build dir
> > is /usr/src/linux-obj. I want to build an rpm for this to make it easy
> > to install. I'll let you know how it goes, but making an rpm requires
> > a standard way of building modules, which I don't think ovs uses.
> > 
> > So I should checkout the latest tarball I assume to get this fix?
> 
> I didn't push anything yet.  I'm waiting on Ian for approval.

By the way, if your RPM building effort goes well and you're willing to
share, we'd be glad to add build instructions (and a spec file etc.) to
the OVS tree.

Thanks,

Ben.




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