Re: Missing makefile

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 7/31/2013 3:46 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 15:05 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > On 7/31/2013 2:39 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 10:53 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> > > > And compiling kernel modules is off-topic for debian-user.  It should,
> > > > however, be on-topic here.
> > >
> > > Not really, although I realise the longer description on
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/ could lead you to that
> > > conclusion. As the short description better indicates, debian-devel is
> > > focused on the development of the distribution, rather than development
> > > on or using it.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Adam
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > OK, I can understand that.  However, then where do you get support for
> > building modules with tools supplied by Debian - especially when there
> > seems to be a bug in one of those tools, but can't figure out which tool
> > to file a bug report against (or if it even is a bug - which I think it is)?
> >
> > The mentors list doesn't seem to be appropriate, either.
>
> It's not a bug in our packages, otherwise we would have hundreds of bug
> reports of this already.
>
> (My guess: you haven't installed the packages properly, for example you
> made /usr/src a symlink.)
>
> Ben.

Ben,

I'm not sure what would have been wrong.  I haven't made any additional 
symlinks other than some for Apache configuration files, etc. - nothing 
like /usr/src.

Additionally, there was one bug report (I don't have the number off 
hand) which was closed with no apparent (to me, at least) solution. 
Others have also experienced this problem - but again, I haven't been 
able to discern a resolution for any of these (other than one which was 
a change to the user's makefile).

Anyway, I've posted in debian-users; I'll see what goes there.