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girish_hilage 08-12-2008 06:30 AM

error while compiling madwifi
 
Hi,
While compiling madwifi-0.9.4 on RH9 I am getting following erros :

[root@machine02 madwifi-0.9.4]# make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
for i in ath/ ath_hal/ ath_rate/ net80211/; do \
make -C $i || exit 1; \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user1/madwifi-0.9.4/ath'
make -C /lib/modules/2.4.20-8smp/build SUBDIRS=/home/user1/madwifi-0.9.4/ath modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make -r -f tmp_include_depends all
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
touch: creating `/usr/src/build/231485-i386/install/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/fs/jfs/jfs_debug.h': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/build/231485-i386/install/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/fs/jfs/jfs_debug.h] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make[2]: *** [tmp_include_depends] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user1/madwifi-0.9.4/ath'
make: *** [modules] Error 1

I have installed kernel source in the directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8.
Does anybody know reason for failure?
Regards,
Girish

David1357 08-12-2008 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by girish_hilage (Post 3244702)
touch: creating `/usr/src/build/231485-i386/install/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/fs/jfs/jfs_debug.h': No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/build/231485-i386/install/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/fs/jfs/jfs_debug.h] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make[2]: *** [tmp_include_depends] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user1/madwifi-0.9.4/ath'
make: *** [modules] Error 1

I have installed kernel source in the directory /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8.
Does anybody know reason for failure?

It looks like the main problem is that it is looking for a directory named "/usr/src/build" which is unlikely to exist. Without downloading the source and looking for myself, I do not know why it would be looking for kernel source in such a strange place.


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