Re: make-kpkg fail: can't find modversions.h (compiling pcmcia-modules)

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au> writes:

> I am trying to use make-kpkg to make a pcmcia-modules package for a
> laptop.  It quits giving the following error:
> 
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19: linux/modversions.h: No such file or 
> directory
> 
> and sure enough, I can't find a file called "modversions.h" anywhere
> on the system!!

I stumbled over this one when trying to compile the ALSA modules, took
me a whole day to find why ...

"modversions.h" is a file being created in the kernel compiling
process. You have to build a new *kernel* before beeing able to make a
modules package. Don't do a "make-kpkg clean" after that, because the
file will be deleted by the cleaning up. Just proceed with making the
modules package.

Greetings,
joachim