Want to compile kernel, missing include/linux/autoconf.h
 

Hi-

I'm trying to compile version 2.4.31 of the kernel. I've downloaded
the source and come to the "make dep" step. When I "make dep",
the make breaks and tells me that I'm missing include/linux/autoconf.h,
which when I check, I sure am. Short of redownloading the whole
tarball, is there some way that I can get just autoconf.h? If it's short,
maybe someone could copy it into the answer to this query?

Otherwise, does anyone know of a website where I can get a single
file from the kernel source? I tried the Linux Kernel Archives, but
wasn't able to find the right way to get at the uncompressed files.

Can anyone help?
pjz

This sounds like a dependency link hasn't been set up during the install. Which also sounds like you missed a stage.

Are you sure that you have all of the dependencies installed (including glibc-devel libtools, etc.)? There's a list in the README file along with instructions on how to check you have the right version.

Also, did you run the make mrproper stage?


I doubt that this is a missing file from the source tarball. If it was, this would mean that the tarball you have is broken, because a bug like that in a standard release would have been reported by now. But you can easily check; download the MD5 checksum file for the source you downloaded and then use md5sum to check it against the source .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz file. For more details, open a terminal and type:

rjlee-

Thanks for getting back promptly.

Yes I did run "make mrproper".

I agree with you... I doubt that there's a missing file. That's a little too obvious. I imagine that I'm just not doing something right. I checked into the README in the linux2.4.31 (topmost source) directory. No
such list as you describe is in that directory. Must I look at a different
README? which one?

I'll try various README's until I hear back.
pjz

it's been a long time since i messed with 2.4 series kernel but that file autoconf.h gets created when you do the configure
"make xconfig" i think

foo-bar-foo,

Thanks. I'd been "saving to file" and exiting make xconfig, and apparently one must "save and exit" in order to produce autoconfig.h. This is the missing step.

Thanks again everyone
pjz