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From: Robert P. J. Day on 18 Jun 2010 17:30 when one tries to build a simple module against a "make distclean"ed source tree, one gets: ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid. include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing. Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it. that diagnostic seems inaccurate in two ways. first, "make oldconfig" is unnecessarily specific -- it should really just say, "you must configure your kernel source first." and second, "make prepare" should really say "make modules_prepare", should it not? anyone mind if i submit a patch? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |