Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:40:53 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uppc kmod installation problem Message-ID: <46B0B795.5070106@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <46A8AC15.4080509@icyb.net.ua> References: <46A8AC15.4080509@icyb.net.ua>
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on 26/07/2007 17:13 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> It seems that installation action of uppc-kmod port (do-install target)
> uses incorrect tool to put uppc.ko in its destination. It seems that the
> tool (${INSTALL_PROGRAM}) corrupts the .ko, so that it is not a valid
> kernel module anymore. If I put uppc.ko into /boot/kernel and do kldxref
> then kldxref complains about missing symbol table in uppc.ko and dumps
> core. If the module is loaded then it crashes my system.
>
> On the other hand, if I simply copy uppc.ko from work directory then it
> works ok.
[snip]
> Some system info:
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64
[snip]
This problem seems to be the same as the one described here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100703
There seems to be something special about amd64, kernel modules and
'install -s' / strip.
--
Andriy Gapon
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