[hpoj-devel] RE: can't compile officejet drivers

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Hi, Cyrus.  modversions.h may get generated when building a custom kernel.
Off the top of my head I don't know what purpose is served by including this
file.  Try removing lines that include it and see what happens.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyrus Razavi [mailto:c....@us...]
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 6:19 AM
> To: dav...@hp...
> Subject: can't compile officejet drivers
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> I am trying to get my HP OfficeJet G85 to work under Linux. I 
> have donwloaded
> the drivers from your site, but I get the following error:
> 
> cyrus@era-cadcam:~/hpoj-0.6$ make
> ptal
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cyrus/hpoj-0.6/ptal'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `release'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cyrus/hpoj-0.6/ptal'
> ieee12844
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cyrus/hpoj-0.6/ieee12844'
> gcc -O -I/home/cyrus/hpoj-0.6/include -I/home/cyrus/hpoj-0.6/ptal
> -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE
> -DEXPORT_SYMTAB  -c ieee12844pp.c
> ieee12844pp.c:48: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [ieee12844pp.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cyrus/hpoj-0.6/ieee12844'
> make: *** [release] Error 2
> cyrus@era-cadcam:~/hpoj-0.6$ 
> 
> What is the modversions.h that it is looking for? I am 
> running a slimline
> install of debian potato and I have installed the Linux 
> kernel 2.2.17 source
> in /usr/src/linux.
> 
> I would appreciate if you would reply to cy...@er... 
> rather than the
> reply-to address specified in the header.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> 
> Cyrus Razavi
> 
> 
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