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Subject: Re: Problems in compiling pctel-0.9.2
From: "Mario J. Borgnia" <mborgnia@nih.gov>
To: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@ces.clemson.edu>
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Date: 06 Jun 2002 13:14:19 -0400
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I had suspected that the problem had something to do with KERNEL_VERSION
and tried to hack it a little bit. Thanks to Matthew Saltzman for his
succinct message, it pushed me over the top of the Activation Energy
peak. So I set up to figure out what was wrong.
 
I had set up KERNEL_VERSION explicitly by editing it 

KERNEL_VERSION=2.4.18-3

And made a copy 'cp configure configure-good'

Then I issued "./configure" command. Up to here the procedure was
successful. I compared configure and configure-good, the file was not
changed.

After that, I ran "make", which failed as follows:

>>configure: error: You should have linux kernel >= 2.4.0 installed

I compared the two configure files again and they were quite different
this time. Among numerous other changes the KERNEL_VERSION line was
reverted to the original. I tried both changing it back or reverting to
the originally modified configure and running "make". BOTH APPROACHES
WORKED and I got the compiled modules.

Issuing su in RedHat 7.3 does not include the appropriate path, thus,
the make install script fails at depmod. The solution is to shift to a
console (e.g Alt F2), log as root and make install.

I hope this helps the next in line.
Thank you guys for developing the modules.

Mario


In Thu, 2002-06-06 at 11:18, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On 5 Jun 2002, Mario J. Borgnia wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to compile the module for my Eigerlabs modem. The error
> > log follows
> 
> > checking for Linux kernel version >= 2.4.0... ./configure: test: too
> > many arguments
> > no
> > configure: error: You should have linux kernel >= 2.4.0 installed
> > make: *** [config.status] Error 1
> 
> Edit the configure script and set KERNEL_VERSION explicitly.
> 
> -- 
> 		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs@clemson.edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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