On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Boryeu Mao <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Summary of building cloop
>
> The build from the alioth source tar (thanks for the pointer Vladimir)
> turns out to be rather straightforward, with only one minor hurdle
> when the configuration script quit with an error message that 'the
> zlib library is required'.  I was stumped because rpm query showed
> that the package zlib is installed in the system (livecd-iso-to-disk
> from SL-65-x86_64-liveDVD.iso).  After a bit of wild goose chase I
> discovered serendipitously that the missing party was actually zlib.h
> (in package zlib-devel).  The build went on uneventfully afterwards,
> for both the kernel module and the 3 utility programs.  For modprobe
> to find the module, I placed it in /lib/modules/`uname
> -r`/kernel/misc/.

May I suggest that you put your module in /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/extra/ to make it distinct from the distro-supplied ones.

Another suggestion is to consider making a kABI-tracking (kmod)
package. This way, you would not have to rebuild for each kernel
update.

Akemi