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authorAnish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>2015-06-08 17:37:31 -0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2015-06-22 09:56:07 -0600
commited45d403696150864ee3090e69e0564d4397eebc (patch)
tree5076232bc5183facc10135f0b1eb525c640360bd /Documentation/kbuild
parentf8785d94fc4e93cacbdb930ec3654fc035a375ec (diff)
downloadlinux-ed45d403696150864ee3090e69e0564d4397eebc.tar.bz2
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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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
index 951eb9f1e040..f0153adb95e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/headers_install.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The "make headers_install" command can be run in the top level directory of the
kernel source code (or using a standard out-of-tree build). It takes two
optional arguments:
- make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr/include
+ make headers_install ARCH=i386 INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr
ARCH indicates which architecture to produce headers for, and defaults to the
current architecture. The linux/asm directory of the exported kernel headers
@@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ the command:
ls -d include/asm-* | sed 's/.*-//'
-INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
-"./usr/include".
+INSTALL_HDR_PATH indicates where to install the headers. It defaults to
+"./usr".
+
+An 'include' directory is automatically created inside INSTALL_HDR_PATH and
+headers are installed in 'INSTALL_HDR_PATH/include'.
The command "make headers_install_all" exports headers for all architectures
simultaneously. (This is mostly of interest to distribution maintainers,