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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>
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Anish Bhatt
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Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
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Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
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kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build). It takes two
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optional arguments:
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make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include
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make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr
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ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the
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current architecture. The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers
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ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//'
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INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
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"./usr/include".
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INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
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"./usr".
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An 'include' directory is automatically created inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and
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headers are installed in 'INSTALL_HDR_PATH/include'.
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The command "make headers_install_all" exports headers for all architectures
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simultaneously. (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers,