version.h

[David Bruzos]

Hi:
To generate the version.h file you have to type:

$ make prepare

in the kernel's source tree.

This is not required though.  Only some packages depend on this kernel.h file.  One of these packages is the official 
NVIDIA Linux drivers.  Fedora does not even come with the version.h file by default.  So, you probably don't need to 
worry about it, unless, you run into a package that needs it...
One more thing.  If you are trying to compile the 2.6.10 kernel with speakup, it will not work.  There is some problem 
that prevents the speakup patches from patching the kernel source correctly.  Kirk said that he was going to take a look 
at the problem later today.  So, you might have to wait some time or modify the patches your self.

David Bruzos.


On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:55:41AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> Wait a second.  If you are using debian, do you have torun tha make command
> command you speak of?  The reason I ask is because I just tried to build a
> kernel by simply running the checkout script and running make config.  I saw
> something in the kernel howto about make mkroper deleting files, that could be
> poor information of course.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy at adelphia.net>
> To: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 4:47 AM
> Subject: version.h
> 
> 
> > Folks,
> >
> > I haven't built a kernel to offten until now, but I grabbed version
> > 2.6.10 and when I untarred it and ran make mrproper, I got the following
> > error message.
> >
> > awk: cannot open /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/include/linux/version.h (No such
> > file or directory)
> >
> > I checked and sure enough there is no version.h file. Now my current
> > 2.6.7 kernel has this file and upon doing a cat on the file the 2.6.7
> > value is listed. I then checked the /usr/include/linux directory that
> > Debian installed and found there was suc a file, but of course the
> > kernel version there is something like 2.6.0.
> > I am sure I'm just missing something here, but any thoughts would be
> > appreciated as I'm not sure how this file gets created or if its
> > supposed to be there any longer.
> > Any thoughts appreciated.
> >
> > tia
> > Scott
> >
> >
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