[ovs-discuss] help installing Open vSwitch

[Ben Pfaff]

config.log says:

  configure:6695: checking for Linux 2.6 build directory
  configure:6702: result: no
  configure:6704: error: source dir
/lib/modules/2.6.26.5-netkit-K2.8/build doesn't exist

Are you sure that you passed the right directory name on --with-l26?

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
> config.log is attached.
>
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install Open vSwitch for the first time. It appears
>> > that datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko never gets built for me,
>> > although
>> > I do not see any error messages in make's output. I did use the
>> > --with-l26
>> > option to configure.
>>
>> Can you pass along config.log and the output of "make"?
>>
>> > The instructions also say that bridging support
>> > (CONFIG_BRIDGE) is required to build a kernel module. Perhaps this is my
>> > error, but I don't know how to check if I have this. Can someone please
>> > point me in the right direction.
>>
>> If bridging support isn't enabled, then I'm pretty sure that the build
>> would fail.  If you are using a distribution kernel, then bridging support
>> is probably enabled, so it's not really worth worrying about this yet.
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