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

[Cyrus R. <cy...@er...>]

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In message <499...@xr...>,
PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...> writes
>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.

I'll try what you have suggested when I boot into Linux. Thanks for your
help.

Regards,

Cyrus

>
>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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