Re: problem building lirc modules

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error:
>
>         echo "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";               \
>         echo "         include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";      \
>         echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";  \
>
> I don't really know how to "Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src".
> Could somebody help me out?  I tried running that command in 
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common but I got these errors, so I assume I did it wrong.
>
> scripts/Makefile.build:44: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common/scripts/basic/Makefile: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common/scripts/basic/Makefile'.  Stop.
> make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
>

Did you run 'm-a update' and 'm-a prepare' first?

-- 
Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland