make error

Thanks Anmol, first installed the following extra packages
"linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms module-init-tools" then ran make
oldconfig && make prepare, I get further:
 make M=drivers/staging/bcm/

  WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/Module.symvers
           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

  LD [M]  drivers/staging/bcm//bcm_wimax.o
/bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [drivers/staging/bcm//bcm_wimax.o] Error 1
make: *** [_module_drivers/staging/bcm/] Error 2

I did a git clone git://
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
then git branch douglagm - I am working on this.


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Anmol Sarma [off-list ref] wrote:

The commands simply prepare the sources for compilation. Don't worry, it
will not modify your system in any way.

P.S. Make sure you're submitting patches against the linux-next tree.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Gregg Douglas [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi,

I have always wanted to contribute, but I am not a coder, I am a Linux
Admin, so I know some bash, perl and php. I came across the following video
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4&feature=related

So I decided even if I clean code it would hopefully make some
contribution. I followed the video and came to the following file that
needed some correction: drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceDld.c. "
checkpatch.pl" gave 2 errors, both ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)",
so I fixed the errors.

I did a "git diff" and it showed the corrections, from the video the next
step is to build the file, I believe the command must be "make
M=drivers/staging/bcm/", but I get the following errors:

  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.


  WARNING: Symbol version dump /home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/Module.symvers
           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

  LD      drivers/staging/bcm//built-in.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
/home/douglagm/git/linux-2.6/scripts/Makefile.modpost:42:
include/config/auto.conf: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf'.  Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2

The error says " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to
fix it", but I am a bit nervous to try this, I would please like some
guidance before continuing.

I think the issue is related to my OS's kernel headers, from the kernel
README I am not sure what I need to do ?

I did a bit of searching the net and did not really find some answers,
well that made sense to me. kernelnewbies.org, not sure what is going on
there, get a lot of "*This page does not exist yet. You can create a new
empty page, or use one of the page templates. Before creating the page,
please check if a similar page already exists."*

Regards
Gregg





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