From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lei Yang Subject: Re: Error building 'Hello,World' kernel Module Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:44:06 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4112B836.2060703@nec-labs.com> References: <1091659420.5427.14.camel@bijar.nec-labs.com> <1091683034.1861.13.camel@shine.naturesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1091683034.1861.13.camel@shine.naturesoft.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: shinemohamed_j@naturesoft.net Cc: Kernel Newbies Mailing List , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Shine Mohamed Jabbar wrote: > Hi, > > I tried ur program in my machine and > its working fine. > > Apart from what u've done I did two more things > 1) Copied the config file from the /boot to kernel > source directory and done "make menuconfig" I didn't copy anything to kernel source, I just did 'make oldconfig' > 2) Done a make in the kernel source till it compiles > the first c file (CC init/main.o). (I've done > because to make a link of include/asm->include/asm-i386). Is this really necessary...? I don't know. I didn't do that. I thought all the information module needed is the kernel configuration. Thanks. Lei > Regards, > Shine Mohamed Jabbar > > On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 04:13, Lei Yang wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I am learning about module programming and just tried to build a >>simplest module, Hello World. >> >>The code is as follows: >>/* hello.c >>#include >>#include >> >>int init_module(void) >>{ >> printk("Hello world!\n"); >> return 0; >>} >> >>void cleanup_module(void) >>{ >> printk(KERN_ALERT "Goodbye world!\n"); >>} >> >> >>The makefile is just one line: >> obj-m += hello.o >> >>Then as root, I did in the HelloWorld directory: >> >>make -C /usr/src/linux-`uname -r` SUBDIRS=$PWD modules >> >>There is such an error: >>make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.104-default' >> >>WARNING: Symbol version dump >>/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.104-default/Module.symvers is missing, modules >>will have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS disabled. >> >>make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/home/lei/HelloWorld/hello.c', >>needed by `/home/lei/HelloWorld/hello.o'. Stop. >>make: *** [_module_/home/lei/HelloWorld] Error 2 >>make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.104-default' >> >> >>Appreciate any comments and help! >> >>TIA >>Lei >> >> >> >>-- >>Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. >>Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ >>FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ >> >> > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs