Re: building custom module on 2.6.28 fails

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun Jan 25 2009 - 08:45:43 EST


On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:49:16PM +0530, Satish Eerpini wrote:
> >> It seems you run "make clean" or "make distclean" in your kernel sources
> >>
> >> run "make prepare" in your kernel sources then you will not get this
> >> error.
> >
>
> I ran make clean and then make prepare but it gives an error saying
> "no such file or directory : modpost ", ....
> Then i ran make( in the kernel source tree) , and terminated it after
> a few files were compiled and then again tried to compile my module,
> this time it worked without any errors, ....... any particular reason
> for this ??
We are currently lacking a dependency on "scripts" so doing:
make scripts
make prepare
is needed today.

Sam
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