Re: problem building lirc modules

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:03:15AM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> 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?
> 
Yes, several times actually!

-Rob