[pvrusb2] driver make fail....

[Mike Isely]

The "modules" target is a basic target of the kernel build system.  The 
driver build process dispatches the kernel build system specifying that 
target in order to build the driver.  It's a mechanism that has been in 
place for basically the entire life of the 2.6 kernel series.

It however will only work if the kernel source tree is correctly 
installed in your system.  The fact that your build seems to have 
dispatched *something* there would suggest that you do have it 
installed, but then the "modules" target should have worked.  Perhaps 
your distribution is doing something strange?  It's impractical for me 
to test / verify multiple distributions' methods for handling kernel 
sources.  I'm a Debian user here but for this driver I also build and 
test against vanilla kernel tree from kernel.org.  That's about as 
"generic" as one can get.

  -Mike


On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Dhimiter Bozo wrote:

> hi,
> i just downloaded the new driver and for some reason "make" is failing.
> below is a snapshot of what i'm doing and the message i'm getting. Can
> someone help?
> Kernel version: 2.6.31-16-generic
> 
> laptop:~/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124$ make --directory driver
> make: Entering directory
> `/home/dhimiter/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124/driver'
> make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=pvrusb2 -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic/
> M=/home/dhimiter/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124/driver
> CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2=m CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_24XXX=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_SYSFS=y CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_DVB=y
> CONFIG_VIDEO_PVRUSB2_DEBUGIFC=y CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG=y modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.31-16-generic'
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> make: Leaving directory
> `/home/dhimiter/Downloads/pvrusb2-mci-20091124/driver'
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> dhimiter
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