8.50. Kmod-33

8.50.1. Installation of Kmod

Prepare Kmod for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-openssl    \
            --with-xz         \
            --with-zstd       \
            --with-zlib       \
            --disable-manpages

Compile the package:

make

The test suite of this package requires raw kernel headers (not the “sanitized” kernel headers installed earlier), which are beyond the scope of LFS.

Install the package and recreate some symlinks for compatibility with Module-Init-Tools (the package that previously handled Linux kernel modules). The building system will create all these symlinks in /usr/bin, but we only want lsmod there and all other symlinks in /usr/sbin instead:

make install

for target in depmod insmod modinfo modprobe rmmod; do
  ln -sfv ../bin/kmod /usr/sbin/$target
  rm -fv /usr/bin/$target
done

8.50.2. Installation of Kmod - 32bit

Clean previous build but keep man pages as they cannot be recreated since xsltproc isn't installed yet:

sed -e "s/^CLEANFILES =.*/CLEANFILES =/" -i man/Makefile
make clean

Prepare Kmod for compilation:

CC="gcc -m32" ./configure \
    --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu      \
    --prefix=/usr                 \
    --libdir=/usr/lib32           \
    --sysconfdir=/etc             \
    --with-openssl                \
    --with-xz                     \
    --with-zstd                   \
    --with-zlib                   \
    --disable-manpages            \
    --with-rootlibdir=/usr/lib32

Compile the package:

make

Install the package:

make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32
rm -rf DESTDIR