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Re: [SLE] [ALSA and Kernel] No version.h in mantel's kerneltarball?
- From: Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:21:26 -0500
- Message-id: <3C17AE36.8F05AE9B@xxxxxxxxxx>
JW wrote:
>
> At 05:01 PM 12/12/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >12/12/01 4:51:15 PM, JW <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>However upon trying to run configure on ALSA, I get an error (I meant to bring the error message
> >but I forgot it, sorry) saying that /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h is not found.
> >>
> >>I carefully looked in the directory it named and while there were a lot of other .h files in there,
> >there was indeed no version.h .
> >>
> >>Can anyone explain this? I don't know what version.h is but it sounds major, I'm surprised it's not
> >in the tarball.
> >>
> >>Do I need to make it somehow?
> >>
> >>----------------------------------------------------
> >>Jonathan Wilson
> >>System Administrator
> >>
> >
> >Try doing 'make dep' in /usr/src/linux beforehand.
>
> Even though I did _not_ compile a new kernel (I used the binary RPM)?
>
To successfully compile and install alsa you MUST have the kernel sources installed for the kernel you are RUNNING. Which means you must do a make dep in the kernel source tree. You should completly build and boot your kernel before you try to compile/install alsa.
Regards
Mark
>
> At 05:01 PM 12/12/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >12/12/01 4:51:15 PM, JW <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>However upon trying to run configure on ALSA, I get an error (I meant to bring the error message
> >but I forgot it, sorry) saying that /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h is not found.
> >>
> >>I carefully looked in the directory it named and while there were a lot of other .h files in there,
> >there was indeed no version.h .
> >>
> >>Can anyone explain this? I don't know what version.h is but it sounds major, I'm surprised it's not
> >in the tarball.
> >>
> >>Do I need to make it somehow?
> >>
> >>----------------------------------------------------
> >>Jonathan Wilson
> >>System Administrator
> >>
> >
> >Try doing 'make dep' in /usr/src/linux beforehand.
>
> Even though I did _not_ compile a new kernel (I used the binary RPM)?
>
To successfully compile and install alsa you MUST have the kernel sources installed for the kernel you are RUNNING. Which means you must do a make dep in the kernel source tree. You should completly build and boot your kernel before you try to compile/install alsa.
Regards
Mark
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