Mandrake 8 make install fails (Examined/Solved - lm_sensors 2.5.5 Mandrake 8 Kernel 2.4.3)

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Please read #536 first...

So, checked makefile and found this:

# This is the directory into which the modules will be installed.

# The magic invocation will return something like this:

# /lib/modules/2.2.15-ac9/misc

MODDIR := /lib/modules/'grep UTS_RELEASE $(LINUX_HEADERS)/linux/version.h|cut -f

2 -d'"/misc

I ran this piece only (replaced linuxheaders with /usr/src/linux/include like

makefile does)

[root@St@rDusT molano]# grep UTS_RELEASE /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h

|cut -f 2 -d'"'

2.4.3-20mdksmp

2.4.3-20mdkenterprise

2.4.3-20mdk

[root@St@rDusT molano]#

which means version.h contains 3 lines instead of 1.

So, looks like lm_sensors tries to install the modules in 2.4.3-20mdksmp and

2.4.3-20mdkenterprise after which it fails (see #536)

I changed that whole grep-bunch with 2.4.3-20mdk and it did everything fine...

I don't know how you can change your Makefile to make ik still flexible.

Distribution: (new) Mandrake 8.0

Hoping for some feedback about my lecture ;)

Arnout Verbeken --- If you email your /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h file

to us then we can figure out how to fix our makefile to work with it.

Email it to sensors@… with the subject "ticket 538".

thanks

MDS 4/28/01

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This is caused by multiple UTS_RELEASE lines in <linux/version.h>

which causes the "magic invocation" for MODDIR in our Makefile to fail.

This type of version.h file is non-standard and is not supported

by our package.

The workaround is to specify MODDIR on the command line

for 'make install', e.g.

make install MODDIR=/lib/modules/2.4.2-mandrake-smp/misc

Closed.

MDS 5/26/01