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

[Robert Webb]

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:18:45 -0500
  Paul Zimm <pbzinc at dejazzd.com> wrote:
>        
>           I then compiled libpri fine and moved on to 
>zaptel. Did a make clean then make install and get the 
>following error:            How about `make linux26' ? 
>            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.  Have never 
>gotten this error before, that is why I am asking for 
>help.  Robert            do you have kernel sources 
>installed?     I just dealt with these same issue on a 
>recent install on debian. You don't need the kernel 
>sources,
> but you do need the kernel headers for the kernel image 
>you're running. You need to have a sym-link
> named /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ which links to your 
>kernel header directory.
> 
> Zaptel wouldn't compile properly until I removed the 2.6 
>kernel source files, because I had the 2.6 version 
> of the kernel sources and my kernel image and headers 
>were 2.6.11.
> 
> Marv Horst
> "dicovers" the kernel source
> 
>   


That was it. I had recently upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6.8 and 
thought I had added in to install the headers but had not. 
I did the source but not the headers. Seems to be 
compiling fine now.

Thanks for the brain jog... :-)

Robert