[ovs-discuss] Unable to configure the linux kernel module

[ANAND AKELLA]

Hi Ben,
The folder is empty.

ubuntu3:/mnt# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2010-04-23 04:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 2012-04-04 10:09 ..
ubuntu3:/mnt#

Thanks,
Anand

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 05:23:31PM -0400, ANAND AKELLA wrote:
> > I using the latest openvswitch-1.4.0 software on ubuntu v11.10 Utah
> emulab
> > node. When I try to configure the Linux kernel module it gives the
> > following error
> >
> > ubuntu3:~/openvswitch-1.4.0# sudo ./configure
> > --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> > checking build number... none
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > !
> > !
> > checking target hint for cgcc... x86_64
> > checking whether make has GNU make $(if) extension... yes
> > checking for Linux build directory... no
> > configure: error: source dir /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-1.0emulab/build
> doesn't
> > exist
> >
> > ubuntu3:~/openvswitch-1.4.0# ls -l  /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-1.0emulab/build
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2011-08-24 12:51
> > /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-1.0emulab/build -> /mnt/linux-source-2.6.38
> >
> > I went through couple of threads in openvswitch archive,as per the
> > discussion I tried to run the following command but I'm facing the same
> > issue.
> >
> > ubuntu3:~/openvswitch-1.4.0# sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname
> -r`
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > linux-headers-2.6.38.7-1.0emulab is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >
> > ubuntu3:~/openvswitch-1.4.0# sudo ./configure
> > --with-linux=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
> > checking build number... none
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > !
> > !
> > checking target hint for cgcc... x86_64
> > checking whether make has GNU make $(if) extension... yes
> > checking for Linux build directory... no
> > configure: error: source dir /lib/modules/2.6.38.7-1.0emulab/build
> doesn't
> > exist
> >
> > Please let me know if I'm missing something.
>
> The kernel source code, apparently.
>
> What's in /mnt/linux-source-2.6.38?
>
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