Re: tlug: Missing modversions.h ?

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

>  
>  I'm trying to install VMWare (unfortunately, there is something I need
>  to run that only exists for TOOS or - in a flaky version - Solaris),
>  and during the install it has to rejigger itself to run with my 
>  kernel (2.2.10), which it starts to do but winds up like this:
>  
>  /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:19: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
>  make[2]: *** [driver.o] Error 1
>  make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/4409/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.10'
>  make[1]: *** [driver] Error 2
>  make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/4409/vmmon-only'
>  make: *** [auto-build] Error 2
>  make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware/config/4409/vmmon-only'
>  Unable to build the vmmon module.
>  

As per kernel documentation, there is an option CONFIG_MODVERSIONS that
may be used to make the modules somewhat less dependent on the kernel
versions. If this is enabled, it seems module.h reads in modversions.h. 

Although I too dont find it in stock kernel distributions (at least not
in the 2.0 series), I see this header file in the redhat 6.1 kernel
source. I can send this to you (and a couple of other files
modversions.h reads in ) or you can get it from redhat. But
I don't know whether it will work for you as redhat is known to fiddle
with the kernel sources.
 
Selva

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