Re: [PATCH] distro: Add Kmod.

[Nikita Karetnikov]

>>> Can you look at the detailed build logs?

>> 'config.log' contains several errors. For instance:
>>
>> conftest.c:11:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>> Is it important?

> That’s expected: configure tests for the presence of certain features,
> and some are missing, etc.

>> This (from 'test-depmod.c') looks suspicious:
>>
>> #define MODULES_ORDER_LIB_MODULES MODULES_ORDER_ROOTFS "/lib/modules/" 
>> MODULES_ORDER_UNAME
>>
>> (I don't know C.)
>>
>> Also, 'test-testsuite.c' contains the following:
>>
>> fp = fopen("/lib/modules/a", "r");
>>
>> fd = open("/lib/modules/a", O_RDONLY);

> Yeah, this will never work for us, because there’s no /lib.
>
> I support we’d rather ignore tests for now, with a comment explaining
> that this is kernel-dependent, and that we’ll revisit the issue when we
> have a bootable distro.

OK.

> Why do you need this, BTW?  It’ll be essentially unusable at this stage
> because of the above.

'udev-182' depends on 'kmod'. 

'guix-import' doesn't list 'kmod' in 'inputs' for 'udev-173'. I can try
to package it instead of 'udev-182'. It might also solve the error which
is described in the "How to adjust PKG_CONFIG_PATH?" thread.

Nikita

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