Problem in compiling a kernel module

Prashant Shah pshah.mumbai at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 02:45:53 EDT 2011


Hi,

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Ponkumaran Annadurai
<aspkumaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also I couldn't understand the script (particularly $(MAKE) - what does the
> variable stands for? also the rest of the code after "depend.depend.dep").
> If you can explain the script, I shall know how to edit the script for my
> file.

Edit the Makefile and add the following echo's

default:
    echo $(MAKE)
    echo $(KERNELDIR)
    echo $(PWD)
    $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD)

You can try echoing the values of the variables. The $(MAKE) is the
make command used.



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