Hello,

I encountered a problem on a ppc machine when trying to build the
kernel modules for the LINX ipc framework. The output of make is:

% make
# ARCH=ppc
# KERNEL=/lib/modules/2.6.32-28-powerpc/build
# VERBOSE=no
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-28-powerpc'
  CC [M] /home/poly/tpjb/linx-2.5.0/net/linx/af_linx.o
Arch ppc is not supported with CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD at
/usr/src/linux-hea
ders-2.6.32-28-powerpc/scripts/recordmcount.pl line 249.
make[2]: *** [/home/poly/tpjb/linx-2.5.0/net/linx/af_linx.o] Error 255
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/poly/tpjb/linx-2.5.0/net/linx] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-28-powerpc'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

As you can see the ARCH variable is set to ppc, but the
recordmcount.pl script only treats the case when "uname -m" return
powerpc.

When the script was modified to accept the "ppc" variant as well the
build was successful.

Regards,

Ciprian Barbu