[asterisk-users] Zaptel Compatibility

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:05:20PM -0400, Andreas van dem Helge wrote:



> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:21:37PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >  > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:00:57PM -0400, Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
> >  > > Is Zaptel 1.4.10 compatible with RHEL 3 (2.4.21-53.ELsmp)? Because I
> >  > > can compile 1.2.20.1 just fine but 1.4 says:
> >  > >
> >  > > echo "You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.4.21-53.ELsmp
> >  > > kernel installed."
> >  > > You do not appear to have the sources for the 2.4.21-53.ELsmp kernel installed.
> >  > > exit 1
> >  > > make[1]: *** [modules] Error 1
> >  > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/zaptel-1.4.10'
> >  > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > Yes kernel-source is installed, there is no kernel-devel. I read one
> >  > > account where if I use non-SMP kernel it might work. But there's no
> >  > > fun it that. 1.2 works why not 1.4? Failing getting 1.4 to work can I
> >  > > use Zaptel 1.2 with Asterisk 1.4? I think not but just wanted to make
> >  > > sure.
> >  >
> >  > Zaptel will look as the kernel source for (in this specific order)
> >  >
> >  > 1. Whatever you explicitly set in KSRC (if you did)
> >  > 2. /lib/modules/$KVERS/build  (if you set KVERS explicitly)
> >  > 3. /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> >  > 4. /usr/src/linux-2.4
> >  > 5. /usr/src/linux
> >  >
> >  > 'build' in (2) and (3) is normally a symlink to the path of the kernel.
> >
> >  I forgot to mention that there's an additional test done: the source
> >  directory found (KSRC) has to have a file called ".config" in it .
> >
> >  Which is the first of those directories that you actually have?
> >
> >  To better debug this, edit the Makefile. Find the line with that error
> >  message and add the word '$(KSRC)' (without quotes) to it. This should
> >  help you see what the makefile thought is the kernel source tree.
>
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-53.ELsmp/build
> 
> root at unisoft [/]# ll /lib/modules/2.4.21-53.ELsmp/build
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           35 Apr 30 04:48
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-53.ELsmp/build ->
> ../../../usr/src/linux-2.4.21-53.EL/
> 
> There's something wrong with this system
> usr/src/linux-2.4.21-53.EL/.build is missing and I get errors trying
> to do 'make cloneconfig'

.build ?

What .build? I wrote ".config" above.

(A nice example for whoever wants to demonstrate the damage from top posting)


If that directory has no .config file, then it is not a configured
kernel source directory.

If indeed there isn't such a file, You need to figure out where you have a 
matching kernel tree for your kernel.

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