Bug 24101

Summary:	conflicts between kernel/file headers with "make"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <boogiebryan>
Component:	make	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-01-16 10:01:47 UTC

When executing "make" on my newly installed RedHat 7.0 the following message is received:

#make
gcc_D_KERNEL__ -DMODULE -w -02 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/src/linux/include -c -o serial.a serial.c
In file included from serial.c:131:
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use kernel-headers system headers,
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:2:2: #error but headers from an appropriate kernel source
make: *** [serial.a] Error 1

-the Makefile for this module is exacutable in Mandrake 7.1(my previous OS)
-I used the make program from Mandrake in RedHat and the same error occurred
-thus the error is not from the module or the make program 

Bryaan Phillips
boogiebryan

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-01-16 14:43:41 UTC

The error message is trying to prevent errors caused from mis-matches between
glibc and kernel headers For the vast majority of programs the error message is
needed to prevent subtle errors.

Judging from the name of your program "serial.c",  your program may be one of
the handful
of programs that might need to include kernel headers, dunno, can't tell without
more info. You should look carefully for glibc equivalent structures and methods
to
perform the same task.