Compiling a module outside kernel

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 09:00 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:15 +0200, "Robert M. Albrecht" <romal at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > [root at localhost toshiba_acpi]# make
> > make: F?r das Ziel ?default? ist nichts zu tun.
> 
> Once again with LANG=C, please. This is just why l18n is a very
> bad idea.
> 
> > default:
> >     $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
> 
> Yes I can see "default" in the make diagnostic above.
> Maybe tab is missing and replaced with spaces, and make
> TELLS YOU THAT, only IN GERMAN.

And Robert further corrupted it when mailing it out, by turning a bunch
of characters into question marks. How did that happen? 

I'm sure that cut and paste of tabs vs. spaces used to work properly. Is
there a bug filed for the fact that it doesn't?

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dwmw2