Note:
There are a number of different flags that you can use when building
udev. They are as follows:
- prefix - set this to the default root that you want udev to be
+ prefix
+ set this to the default root that you want udev to be
installed into. This works just like the 'configure --prefix'
script does. Default value is ''. Only override this if you
really know what you are doing.
- USE_KLIBC - if set to 'true', udev is built and linked against the included
- version of klibc. Default value is 'false'.
- DEBUG - if set to 'true', debugging messages will be sent to the syslog
+ USE_KLIBC
+ if set to 'true', udev is built and linked against the
+ included version of klibc. Default value is 'false'.
+ USE_LOG
+ if set to 'true', udev will emit messages to the syslog when
+ it creates or removes device nodes. This is helpful to see
+ what udev is doing. This is enabled by default. Note, if you
+ are building udev against klibc it is recommended that you
+ disable this option (due to klibc's syslog implementation.)
+ USE_SELINUX
+ if set to 'true', udev will be built with SELinux support
+ enabled. This is disabled by default.
+ DEBUG
+ if set to 'true', debugging messages will be sent to the syslog
as udev is run. Default value is 'false'.
- USE_DBUS - if set to 'true', DBUS messages will be sent everytime udev
- creates or removes a device node. This requires that DBUS
- development headers and libraries be present on your system to
- build properly. Default value is 'false'.
+ KERNEL_DIR
+ If this is not set it will default to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
+ This is used if USE_KLIBC=true to find the kernel include
+ directory that klibc needs to build against. This must be set
+ if you are not building udev while running a 2.6 kernel.
So, if you want to build udev using klibc with debugging messages, you
would do:
make USE_KLIBC=true DEBUG=true
- Note: If you want to use klibc, you will have to set up the "linux"
- symlink properly. See the file klibc/klibc/README and pay
- attention to step "a)" there.
-
- Install the project:
make install
This will put the udev binary in /sbin, create the /udev and /etc/udev
directories, and place the udev configuration files in /etc/udev. You
- will probably want to edit the namedev.* files to create custom naming
+ will probably want to edit the *.rules files to create custom naming
rules. More info on how the config files are set up are contained in
comments in the files, and is located in the documentation.
greg k-h
greg@kroah.com
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