From c460d095132c434e7c9b7e6c07ac34fef2c71557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:34:06 -0300 Subject: Improved make release method to allow compiling against an arbitrary dir From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Now, with make DIR=, it is possible to compile V4L/DVB with a non-installed dir. This will allow better checking on compatibility issues (especially for -git tree) Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- INSTALL | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index acf41dbb1..d71688cdf 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -58,9 +58,12 @@ release - Allows changing kernel version. Typical usage is: make release VER=2.6.12-18mdk (to force compiling to 2.6.12-18mdk) - This will work only if - /lib/modules/2.6.12-18mdk/build/ - points to that kernel version + (This will work only if + /lib/modules/2.6.12-18mdk/build/ + points to that kernel version) + Or + make release DIR=~/linux-git + (to force using kernel at a specific dir) To use current kernel version instead: make release -- cgit v1.2.3