LinuxQuestions.org - problem installing module-init-tools

Trying to install module-init-tools-0.9.12 (so I can try the 2.5.70 kernel) yields this dissapointing output:

[root@ArchLinux module-init-tools-0.9.12]# ./configure --prefix=/
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/hcman/sources/module-init-tools-0.9.12/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/home/hcman/sources/module-init-tools-0.9.12/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
configure: Adding gcc options: -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing depfiles commands
[root@ArchLinux module-init-tools-0.9.12]# make moveold
if [ "`echo //sbin | tr -s / /`" = /sbin ]; then :; \
else \
echo moveold usually only makes sense when installing into /sbin; \
exit 1; \
fi
for f in lsmod modprobe rmmod depmod insmod modinfo; do \
if [ -L /sbin/$f ]; then \
ln -sf `ls -l /sbin/$f | sed 's/.* -> //'`.old /sbin/$f; \
fi; \
mv /sbin/$f /sbin/$f.old; \
if [ -f /usr/share/man/man8/$f.8.gz ]; then \
mv /usr/share/man/man8/$f.8.gz \
/usr/share/man/man8/$f.old.8.gz; \
elif [ -f /usr/share/man/man8/$f.8.bz2 ]; then \
mv /usr/share/man/man8/$f.8.bz2 \
/usr/share/man/man8/$f.old.8.bz2; \
else \
mv /usr/share/man/man8/$f.8 /usr/share/man/man8/$f.old.8; \
fi; \
done
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/man/man8/lsmod.8': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/man/man8/modprobe.8': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/man/man8/rmmod.8': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/man/man8/depmod.8': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/man/man8/insmod.8': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/man/man8/modinfo.8': No such file or directory
make: *** [move-old-targets] Error 1
[root@ArchLinux module-init-tools-0.9.12]# make
source='lsmod.c' object='lsmod.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/lsmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/lsmod.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'lsmod.c' || echo './'`lsmod.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o lsmod lsmod.o
source='insmod.c' object='insmod.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/insmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/insmod.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'insmod.c' || echo './'`insmod.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o insmod insmod.o
source='modprobe.c' object='modprobe.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/modprobe.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/modprobe.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'modprobe.c' || echo './'`modprobe.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o modprobe modprobe.o
source='rmmod.c' object='rmmod.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/rmmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/rmmod.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'rmmod.c' || echo './'`rmmod.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o rmmod rmmod.o
source='depmod.c' object='depmod.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/depmod.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/depmod.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'depmod.c' || echo './'`depmod.c
source='moduleops.c' object='moduleops.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/moduleops.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/moduleops.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'moduleops.c' || echo './'`moduleops.c
source='tables.c' object='tables.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/tables.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/tables.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'tables.c' || echo './'`tables.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o depmod depmod.o moduleops.o tables.o
source='modinfo.c' object='modinfo.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/modinfo.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/modinfo.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ./depcomp \
gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"module-init-tools\" -DVERSION=\"0.9.12\" -I. -I. -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -c `test -f 'modinfo.c' || echo './'`modinfo.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o modinfo modinfo.o
gcc -g -O2 -Wunused -Wall -Wcast-align -o insmod.static -static insmod.o
[root@ArchLinux module-init-tools-0.9.12]# make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hcman/sources/module-init-tools-0.9.12'
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs //bin
/bin/sh ./install-with-care lsmod //bin/lsmod
install-with-care lsmod //bin/lsmod
./install-with-care: line 21: /usr/bin/install: No such file or directory
./install-with-care: line 21: exec: /usr/bin/install: cannot execute: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 126
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hcman/sources/module-init-tools-0.9.12'
make: *** [install-am] Error 2

I had it working on slackware 9. This is on Arch linux 0.5 however (still with gcc 3.2.1 though).

Any suggestions?

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