Re: [sct-hackers] syscalltrack compilation for Debian

[Muli Ben-Y. <mu...@mu...>]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:04:53AM +0300, Baruch Even wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I've woken up from the dead, and started to clean up my Debian packages,
> SCT is the last in line, and since there are no other takers to handle
> it, I thought I'll give it the update it needed.
>=20
> In version 0.72, I had the sct package generate two "binary" packages,
> one was a true binary for the utilities, the other was a source package
> for the module itself which every user should build for himself.
>=20
> I'd like to keep this setup for 0.82 too since I won't need to rebuild
> the module when a new kernel is released or when a security update is
> done.
>=20
> Instead of me working to figure how to circumvent the new ./configure
> scheme, maybe you could give me a hint, how do I go about compiling the
> utilities by themselves and the module later on.

'make userspace' should do it. Let me see...=20
- compilation works fine (CVS HEAD)
- configuration requires proper kernel sources. Will a --no-kernel
configure option be enough?=20

> Is it possible at all? I hope the utilities don't need some kernel
> version dependent struct that will stop working on me for different
> versions.

Let's just say, in theory they aren't, in practice, I've always built
them together so such dependency may have crept in. If that's the
case, we'll fix it.=20

Thanks for doing this!

Cheers,=20
Muli=20
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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