make error

[Gregg Douglas]

Thanks Anmol, first installed the following extra packages
"linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms module-init-tools" then ran make
oldconfig && make prepare, I get further:
 make M=drivers/staging/bcm/

  WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/Module.symvers
           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

  LD [M]  drivers/staging/bcm//bcm_wimax.o
/bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [drivers/staging/bcm//bcm_wimax.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_drivers/staging/bcm/] Error 2

I did a git clone git://
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
then git branch douglagm - I am working on this.


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Anmol Sarma <unmole.in at gmail.com> wrote:

> The commands simply prepare the sources for compilation. Don't worry, it
> will not modify your system in any way.
>
> P.S. Make sure you're submitting patches against the linux-next tree.
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Gregg Douglas <douglagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have always wanted to contribute, but I am not a coder, I am a Linux
>> Admin, so I know some bash, perl and php. I came across the following video
>> : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4&feature=related
>>
>> So I decided even if I clean code it would hopefully make some
>> contribution. I followed the video and came to the following file that
>> needed some correction: drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c. "
>> checkpatch.pl" gave 2 errors, both ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)",
>> so I fixed the errors.
>>
>> I did a "git diff" and it showed the corrections, from the video the next
>> step is to build the file, I believe the command must be "make
>> M=drivers/staging/bcm/", but I get the following errors:
>>
>>   ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.
>>          include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are
>> missing.
>>          Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
>>
>>
>>   WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/Module.symvers
>>            is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
>>
>>   LD      drivers/staging/bcm//built-in.o
>>   Building modules, stage 2.
>> /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/scripts/Makefile.modpost:42:
>> include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'.  Stop.
>> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>>
>> The error says " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to
>> fix it", but I am a bit nervous to try this, I would please like some
>> guidance before continuing.
>>
>> I think the issue is related to my OS's kernel headers, from the kernel
>> README I am not sure what I need to do ?
>>
>> I did a bit of searching the net and did not really find some answers,
>> well that made sense to me. kernelnewbies.org, not sure what is going on
>> there, get a lot of "*This page does not exist yet. You can create a new
>> empty page, or use one of the page templates. Before creating the page,
>> please check if a similar page already exists."*
>>
>> Regards
>> Gregg
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
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> Anmol Sarma
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> Vignan University
>
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