Makefile errors

[artvandalay]

I downloaded a linux driver for a PCI card peripheral and did an initial 'make' and got errors. The main directory makefile goes through 3 subdirectories to make each of those, and firstly these lines in one of the subdir makefiles seem to cause grief:

ifeq ($(LINUX_VERSION),2.6)
all: 
	$(MAKE) -C $(LINUX_SRC) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules

rocket.o: $(OBJ).o $(OBJ).c $(OBJ)_int.h $(OBJ).h
endif

It echoes that line "make -C SUBDIRS=[working dir] modules" then says "Entering an unknown directory", followed by an no such directory Error 2.

Continuing to the other subdirs, it returns this Error 1 for the both of them:

/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--build-id'
/usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

And then fails all with Error 2.
Anyone know what's up?

[artvandalay]

Well the second two errors were fixed with an updated version of binutils. But the first error is still there.

*Edit: Clarification from the makefile comments:

# To compile just this directory run
#   make -C <kernel soure directory> SUBDIRS=. modules

I replaced $(PWD) with a perdiod as the comments said, but still the unknown directory errors...

[Franklin52]

It seems that you need to install the kernel source.
Google for how to install the kernel source for your distro and install the right version that match your kernel.
Check your release with:

uname -r

Regards

[artvandalay]

Yep, I needed the kernel source - except that actually changed the error to something totally new. I had a feeling this new error is related to the kernel, so I posted in the kernel subforum:
No modpost directory error