bash "make" error

[Bob S]

 
 Hello SuSE people,
 
 This is on 11.4 KDE4. Trying to compile a driver and make tells me my
 kernel is misconfigured. It tells me ": echo "  ERROR: Kernel
 configuration is invalid.";  echo "         include/generated/autoconf.h
 or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
 echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src
 
 So I do that (I think) and I get this:
 make: *** No rule to make target `oldconfig'.  Stop.
 
 I don't know what rule it wants or how to do it. Would some kindGURU
 help out the ignorant please?
 
 Bob S
 

[Per Jessen]

Post by Bob S
Hello SuSE people,
This is on 11.4 KDE4. Trying to compile a driver and make tells me my
kernel is misconfigured. It tells me ": echo "  ERROR: Kernel
configuration is invalid.";  echo "        
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are
missing.";\ echo "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on
kernel src
make: *** No rule to make target `oldconfig'.  Stop.
I don't know what rule it wants or how to do it. Would some kindGURU
help out the ignorant please?

Do you have the kernel sources installed ?

[Tejas Guruswamy]

Post by Per Jessen

Post by Bob S
Hello SuSE people,
This is on 11.4 KDE4. Trying to compile a driver and make tells me my
kernel is misconfigured. It tells me ": echo " ERROR: Kernel
configuration is invalid."; echo "
include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are
missing.";\ echo " Run 'make oldconfig&& make prepare' on
kernel src
make: *** No rule to make target `oldconfig'. Stop.
I don't know what rule it wants or how to do it. Would some kindGURU
help out the ignorant please?

Do you have the kernel sources installed ?

More specifically do you have kernel-$flavor-devel installed? It
provides the bits you're missing above. I presume you're running
kernel-desktop so install kernel-desktop-devel as well as kernel-source.

Regards,
Tejas