Configure Script ? 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Re: Sad: Frustrations with kernel versions
Re: It is a problem in the PCMCIA Configure script (David Hinds)
Date: 2000, Feb 27
From: ehlarson

Hi - I tried the beta with the configure script changes, and found that it has the problem of placing the resulting modules in the wrong directory. After some further experimentation it seems to me that the best way to deal with it is to edit the kernel makefile version string. This way everybody agrees on exactly what is going on. Also - I found that when compiling for SMP the resulting PCMIA modules are looking for APM functions - this can be fixed by also turning off APM in the kernel makefile, but methinks that PCMCIA should not be looking for them as APM is not going to be around when SMP is active. Thanks.

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I'll fix module placement; I disagree on the APM thing Re: Configure Script ? Date: 2000, Feb 28 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I can also fix the problem with module placement, easily enough. I didn't notice that when I made the other changes. Editing the kernel Makefile isn't really an acceptable work-around; I've tried pretty hard to make it so that you can avoid having to touch anything in the kernel source tree, to build PCMCIA. For APM, all that PCMCIA does is to see how your kernel is configured. I think it would be wrong for PCMCIA to ignore APM on an SMP kernel. You've got an APM kernel config option: that is the only sensible thing for PCMCIA to check. Some people might want to build a kernel with SMP and APM, so that they can run the same kernel on their laptops and their desktop SMP boxes. -- Dave

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