Re: kernel source tree

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 17:47, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-03-04, Richard Lyons penned:
> > Another really dim question coming up...
> >
> > I'm trying to install thinkpad drivers for Debian. Instructions say
> > to unpack the thinkpad.tar.gz (no problem there) and then to "cd to
> > the root of the source tree for the kernel for which you want to
> > compile modules, e.g., /usr/src/linux. Run 'make-kpkg
> > --rootcmd=fakeroot modules-image'..."  I innocently assumed the
> > root of the source tree would be /usr/src/linux-2.4.22.  But when I
> > do  'make-kpkg modules-image', I get:
> >   "We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source
> > directory tree..."
> > So I am evidently wrong.  I tried installing (via aptitude) the
> > kernel-source-2.4.22 package, and also
> > kernel-headers-2.4.22-xfs-386, but that didn't help.
> >
> > Can someone kindly tell me what is meant by "the root of the source
> > tree"?
> >
> > I really shall have to find time to learn about sources and
> > compiling one day -- it is always like cooking while blindfolded
> > and with a clothes-peg on your nose...
>
> It may be expecting /usr/src/linux instead.  Try symbolically linking
> the two with `ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 /usr/src/linux`, cd into
> the "new" linux directory, and try again.

It is already linked, and I tried that. Same result (as one might 
expect).

I haven't ever moved or placed anything other than in its default 
location.  How do I ascertain where whatever make-kpkg is looking for 
is in fact located?

-- 
richard