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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Desmond Chapman wrote:
>   
>> It's dependent upon kbuild. Since the developers have no intention of fixing the issue, I would like a tutorial on converting the kmk file to a normal Makefile.
>>     
>
> What is kmk? Google only shows it's used with VirtualBox and nowhere
> else. If it's something the authors of VirtualBox created, you'll have
> to ask them.
>   

Apparently it's the tool used to build kbuild 
(http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/wiki/kmk, http://kbuild.sourceforge.net/) 
projects.   It seems it's what the Linux kernel build system uses.

-- 
Bruce