[Asterisk-Users] Re: Fresh checkout Zaptel will not compile?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:46:06PM +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <web-1330378 at ropeguru.com>,
> Robert Webb <asterisk at ropeguru.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all..
> > 
> > I just setup a test box with Debian running kernel 2.6. 
> > Went to CVS and did a checkout of the new beta 2 release 
> > using the command:  cvs checkout -r v1-2-0-beta2 zaptel 
> > libpri asterisk asterisk-addons asterisk-sounds.
> > 
> > I then compiled libpri fine and moved on to zaptel. Did a 
> > make clean then make install and get the following error:
> > 
> > /bin/sh: line 1: [: argument expected

What is this from?

> > make -C  SUBDIRS=/usr/src/zaptel modules

Note the empty value of KSRC

> > make: *** SUBDIRS=/usr/src/zaptel: No such file or 

And thus the expected error from make.

> > directory.  Stop.
> > make: *** [linux26] Error 2
> > hecate:/usr/src/zaptel#
> > 
> > I am not up to speed on make or its errors, but it looks 
> > like to me that it is complaining about /usr/src/zaptel 
> > not being there or that modules is missing. AS you can see 
> > from the last line there is a /usr/src/zaptel directory. 
> > Or is it something with my 2.6 kernel and a modules 
> > directory or something.
> 
> No, the problem is that you don't have the kernel development files
> installed. I don't know what you need to apt in Debian

kernel-headers-`uname -r` .

(a zaptel package of beta2 suitable for m-a should be ready very soon)

> : in Fedora
> you would need to install kernel-devel or kernel-sources depending
> on which release of Fedora.
> 
> The clue is the TWO spaces between -C and SUBDIRS. The original
> makefile command is:
> 
> $(MAKE) -C $(KSRC) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules
> 
> But $(KSRC) is evaluating as empty.
> 
> The "argument expected" line is an error in an earlier makefile
> line:
> 
> @if [ -z "$(KSRC)" -o ! -d $(KSRC) ]; then echo "You do not appear.....

That's a bug. It should have failed the build.

> 
> The second $(KSRC) should also be enclosed in quotes, so as not to
> cause a syntax error when $(KSRC) is empty or undefined.

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