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Re: ALSA configure problem



Sebastiaan wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Hans wrote:

This problem has been mentioned before, but after lots of googling I
still can't find the solution.

I have a (minimal) running Sid system now, with kernel 2.6.5. I want to
compile ALSA 1.0.4 from source (don't ask me why), so I got all the
tar.bz2 files. The libs compile flawlessly, the drivers not. When
running ./configure I end up with....

<snip>
checking for directory with kernel source... /lib/modules/2.6.5/build
checking for kernel version... The file /lib/modules/2.6.5/build/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
sources (default is /usr/src/linux).

Kernel directory is /usr/src/linux-2.6.5 and is symlinked by /usr/src/linux.
The option --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-2.6.5 doesn't help in solving
the problem.
The file /lib/modules/2.6.5/build/include/linux/version.h doesn't exist.

Anyone with some hints or tips? Thanks.

Hans


usually when you install your kernel, some source files are installed in
/lib/modules/2.6.5/ . Normally this happens when you do a 'make
modules_install' after the kernel has been compiled. I don't know how you
installed your kernel, but version.h definitely should exist there.

Note that /usr/src/linux is something different than
/lib/modules/2.6.5/, because the latter is (always) your current kernel.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan

Is this new for kernel 2.6? I indeed solved it by running make modules, then make modules_install in the kernel source directory. I used make-kpkg for compiling the kernel and all the modules that were compiled with the kernel were installed and worked. I compiled ALSA on a Woody box with a 2.4.18 kernel and didn't have this problem. Never had to to a make modules; make modules_install.

But thank anyway, as I have ALSA installed now.

Hans



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