Re: Missing Version.h

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 12:48:51 EST


On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:10:48AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Amias Channer wrote:
> >
> > Hello All ,
> >
> > Apologies if i'm restating a known problem , I couldn't find any list
> > archives to check .
> > My new kernel (2.2.14 un-patched) appears to be missing version.h so i
> > can't run configure scripts.
> > I downloaded from kernel.org as a tar.gz and unpacked it how i usually
> > do (into /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 and made a symlink to /usr/src/linux ) .
> > Have i missed something obvious ?
>
> include/linxu/version.h is autogenerated from the makefile. Are you
> trying to run the configure scripts directly, or using make
> {,x,old,menu}config?

I think he has /usr/include/{linux,asm} symlinked to the source tree. And
configure scripts that check for kernel headers catch it when you haven't
run "make config dep" or what have you.

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