#4 Installation problems

[Jorge Dougnac]

I'm a Linux newbie.

I have an Athlon 1GHz and an ABIT KT7A RAID
motherboard.and a Sonic Vortex 2 soundcard I'm using
Mandrake 8.0.

Whenever I follow the install instructions I get the
following error messages:
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make install
cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DAU8830 -mpentium -O6
-fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -pipe
-I/usr/src/RPM/SOURCES -c -o au_audio.o au_audio.c
In file included from au_vortex.h:55,
from au_audio.c:49:
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules
should never use kernel-headers system headers,
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but
headers from an appropriate kernel-source
make: *** [au_audio.o] Error 1
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should I make any changes in the makefile ?
I had the same problem when I tried to install it in
Mandrake 7.2.

Can someone please help me?

My email is linux@dougnac.com

Best Regards
Jorge

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Should be fixed by changing INCLUDEDIRS in the Makefile to
point to the right place - e.g. /lib/modules/$(shell uname
-r)/build/include

This could also be dealt with by just changing the
INCLUDEDIRS line to be INCLUDEDIRS ?= ..., and then having
text in the README about what values you might want to set
it to.

Peter Desnoyers

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi,

I can confirm the problem Jorge faces. It seems to be
problem with Kernel Versions 2.4.3 & up. I got the same
problem while trying to install on the following systems:

RedHat 7.0 with kernel 2.4.3 & 2.4.4 (2.2.x and 2.4.0 work
fine)
RedHat 7.1 with 2.4.3(default) & 2.4.4
Mandrake 8.0

I didn't try with earlier versions of Mandrake or other
distros. Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.x works fine too.

Amit

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Make sure you have the kernel sources installed, and check the
Makefile for INCLUDEDIRS (on my RedHat 7.1 it points to
/usr/src/linux, which I changed to /usr/src/linux-2.4) and make
sure it points to the kernel source, not the system headers
(which it will use as a fallback).
After that, I don't know how to build under Mandrake; I finally
managed to build it under RedHat 7.1 after several attempts, one
of which was forgetting to clean up the kernel object files (make
mrproper) when rebuilding. Good luck...

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Ensure you have the kernel source installed and not just
the headers.

Also, if you're using RedHat 7.1, you'll have to go to the
/usr/src directory and to the following:

$ln -s linux-2.4.2 linux

That should do it. You want to be using the include files
in the kernel source directory always for modules, which
is what the message was saying.

I didn't realise this until I decided to investigate why
it wasn't using the kernel headers. That's when I realised
that the kernel source code was not installed on my system.

It's works now. Try that.