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author | Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com> | 2015-06-08 17:37:31 -0700 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2015-06-22 09:56:07 -0600 |
commit | ed45d403696150864ee3090e69e0564d4397eebc (patch) | |
tree | 5076232bc5183facc10135f0b1eb525c640360bd /Documentation/kbuild | |
parent | f8785d94fc4e93cacbdb930ec3654fc035a375ec (diff) | |
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kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH
The header install makefile creates an 'include' directory inside
INSTALL_HDR_PATH and appending include to the path results in headers
being installed to include/include.
Don't recommend appending include to the path as makefile already does
this.
Signed-off-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt index 951eb9f1e040..f0153adb95e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The "make headers_install" command can be run in the top level directory of the kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build). It takes two optional arguments: - make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include + make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the current architecture. The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers @@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ the command: ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//' -INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to -"./usr/include". +INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to +"./usr". + +An 'include' directory is automatically created inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and +headers are installed in 'INSTALL_HDR_PATH/include'. The command "make headers_install_all" exports headers for all architectures simultaneously. (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers, |