On 20 Aug 00, at 20:01, Tal Danzig wrote:
> Actually I believe that versions.h is made when you compile with kernel versio
> n headers on (not quite the correct terminology here I think) and is made with
> a 'mak make dep in the kernel source dir. At least I think that is correct
> :)
>
> Tal
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:48:17 -0400 (EDT), Dave Bresson said:
>
> > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, David Bellows wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm now trying to configure my Voodoo 3 2000 card for fullscreen mode.
> > > As far as I can tell I've installed everything from the Debian CDs
> > > pertaining to glide and mesa and 3dfx. Now I'm left with a
> > > device3dfx.tar.gz in /usr/src. When I untared and unzipped it I was
> > > given a modules directory. I tried to compile anything in there I
> > > could, but was given the error "missing
> > > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h configure the kernel first". Now
> > > I'm stuck. Anyone have any hints? Am I even going in the right
> > > direction? I've read several docs, but I can't find anything yet.
> > >
> >
> >
> > well, speaking from my own experience, the kernel source given by Debian
> > does not have a version.h. However, the kernel-headers *do*, so if you
> > have the kernel-headers for your kernel installed, that is what
> > /usr/src/linux should be pointed to, as long as you're going to compile
> > against headers there. of course, /usr/src/linux isn't really the way
> of
> > doing things the way i understand it...but that should help you at least.
If you have kernel source code installed, you can do:
cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.x.x. make include/linux/version.h
and you should have version.h
