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I am trying to install an rpm package that is a linuxant driver for a HCF chipset winmodem and when I rebuild the source rpm I get this error message
common.mak:11: *** Is the kernel source package installed? KERNELSSRC doesn not point to a proper directory(/lib/modules/2.4.20-6/BUILD)
make: *** [install] ERROR 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47531
Any ideas???. I checked up the directory /lib/modules/2.4.20-6/BUILD . It exists .
That might be, but that doesn't mean that you have the kernel source installed. It should be in /usr/src/linux-<kernel version> /lib/modules/2.4.20-6/BUILD is just a symlink that points to there.
Thanks for the quick response.But I am unable to understand what exactly is the kernel source?
So what should I copy to that /usr/src/linux... directory??.Should I copy the source rpm there??.Is that what it means??.
You should install the kernel source code, ie. you shouldn't copy the RPM file there, but you should install the RPM.
This is what I have done.I have copied the ***src.rpm into a temp directory under root i.e root/temp. Now when I say rpmbuild --rebuild ***src.rpm , I get this above message. What should I be doing different??.How do I make this KERNELSRC point to this /ur/src/... directoy??
Please ignore my previous post.
I have the src rpm and this is what I have done.I have copied the ***src.rpm file into a temp directory under root i.e root/temp. Now when I say rpmbuild --rebuild ***src.rpm , I get this above message. What should I be doing different??.How do I make this KERNELSRC point to this /lib/modules/... directory??
What src rpm are you referring to? The WinModem driver source code or the kernel source code?
Its the winmodem src rpm
What I'm trying to say is that you will need to install the kernel source code as well. If you're using RedHat, you should be able to find the package kernel-source on your installation CDs. I don't know what it's called under other distros.