On 21-Mar-2001 Robert Mosher wrote:
> I am trying to compile a driver for my sound blaster live, following this:
>
> http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html
>
> as a guide.
> When entering the command 'make depend' I got this error:
>
> grep: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
> grep: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
> Makefile:44: /Makefile: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `/Makefile'. Stop.
>
> I then noticed that /usr/src was empty, but /usr/include/linux contained
Get the linux source, and untar it in /usr/src. It will create /usr/src/linux,
which will have the files you need to compile this driver, which, by the way,
is supported by the version of OSS that comes into the kernel.
> version.h and autoconf.h . I then entered 'ln -s /usr /usr/src/linux' to
> make a link so that /usr/src/linux/include/linux would link to
> /usr/include/linux . However when I ran 'make depend' again I got this error:
This is crazy, drop this linking thing you did and do as I say, it will work.
>
> Please run make dep in your kernel source tree modversions.h is missing
> make: *** [depend] Error 1
>
> Though I'm not really sure what this means. I thought maybe I should run
> 'make dep' in /usr/include/linux but that only spit out this:
>
> make: *** No rule to make target `dep'. Stop.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Mosher
>
>
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