Why don't you create a link called modversions.h that points to version.h?

Best regards,
Adrian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joachim v. Jena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 12:48 AM
Subject: Alsa 0.94 installation Re: [expert] Make xconfig doesn't work in
new kernel


> James Sparenberg wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 02:27, Joerg Mertin wrote:
> >
> >>James Sparenberg wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:52, Greg Meyer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On Saturday 14 June 2003 11:49 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>I've had this for a while on all kernels with my hardware.  I just vi
> >>>>>.config and search for asm or ASM  every time I find it I comment the
> >>>>>line out with a #.  Then it compiles.  Seems that ASM can only
compile
> >>>>>on boxes that need/use it I guess.  OR there is something else that
> >>>>>needs a yes or module that isn't obvious.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I got it done by using make oldconfig, but I suppose it should work.
I also
> >>>>just got dumped out of menuconfig when I tried to enter the ALSA
> >>>>configuration. I suppose I should report both of these to vdanen.
> >>>
> >>>xconfig works ok if you can use it.
> >>
> >>Talking about Alsa,
> >>
> >>you can download the new alsa 0.9.4 drivers if you want. Just make sure
> >>- during compile time you disable the verbose-printk with
> >>./configure --disable-verbose-printk
> >>
> >>if not - you'll get failed dependencies on snd.o which makes the entire
> >>soundsystem unusable.
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >> Joerg
>
> It seems common wisdom in this group that make menuconfig
> crashes when selecting an alsa-driver.
>
> I tried to follow Joerg's hints to avoid these problems. I
> have the kernel 2.4.21-0.18mdk installed and the
> kernel-sources 2.4.21-0.18mdk as well.
>
> My question:
>
> 1) Is it sufficient to install the alsa 0.94 driver-package
> alone from www.alsa-project.org
> to circumvent/resolve the alsa problems?
>
> 2) Has anyone besides Joerg tried his method successfully?
>
> ./configure --disable-verbose-printk
>
> worked.
>
> But then the following make failed on the first occurrence of an
>
> #include <linux/modversions.h>
>
> in some source file. The first one where this happened, was
>
> ./support/pnp/pnp.c
>
> I began with hacking this file without knowing of what is
> going on.
>
> I replaced
>
>
> /*
> * #include <linux/modversions.h>
> */
>
> by
>
> #include
> "/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.18mdk/build/include/linux/version.h"
>
> according to the error message. This seemed to work.
> But now the same error reappeared on compiling the next file
> containing
>
> #include <linux/modversions.h>,
>
> which is ./acore/memalloc.inc, and stops the build process
> thereafter.
>
> A find/grep shows that
>
> ./acore/memalloc.inc
> ./acore/memory_wrapper.c
> ./acore/sgbuf.c
> ./acore/wrappers.c
> ./include/adriver.h
> ./pci/rme9652/hammerfall_mem.inc
> ./support/isapnp/isapnp.c
> ./support/isapnp/isapnp_proc.c
> ./support/isapnp/isapnp_quirks.c
> ./support/pnp/pnp.c
> ./usb/usbcompat.c
>
> are all files containing an
>
> #include <linux/modversions.h>
>
> line.
>
> Because I don't believe that replacing
>
> #include <linux/modversions.h>
>
> by
>
> #include
> "/lib/modules/2.4.21-0.18mdk/build/include/linux/version.h"
>
> in each of these files is the correct method to proceed  I
> stopped installing the alsa driver package.
>
> I would appreciate any comments.
>
> Joachim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>


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