Building the src RPM for BCM5700 on Centos

[j0n]

I'm trying to build the BCM5700-8.3.14a-1 driver on Centos 4.1. The build fails with: -

make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.3.14a modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL'
CC [M] /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.3.14a/b57um.o
In file included from /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.3.14a/b57um.c:19:
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.3.14a/mm.h:31:27: linux/version.h: No such file or directory
/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.3.14a/mm.h:37:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory

I guess it's to do with how we've setup the kernel source. Has anyone seen this problem before ? Any ideas how to setup the src correctly ?
Thanks

[Vipulinux]

Hi
Use the following series of commands:

I install the source RPM package:
rpm -ivh bcm5700-x.x.x.x.src.rpm
2. CD to the RPM path and build the binary driver for my kernel:
cd /usr/src/centos
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec
( rpm-build package should be present)

Cheers

[Vipulinux]

Hi
Use the following series of commands:

I install the source RPM package:
rpm -ivh bcm5700-x.x.x.x.src.rpm
2. CD to the RPM path and build the binary driver for my kernel:
cd /usr/src/centos
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec
( rpm-build package should be present)
3.rpm -ivh --force RPMS/i386/bcm5700-x.x.x.x.i386.rpm

Cheers

[j0n]

Thanks but I'm not sure that this solves the problem. I did the following as per the instructions included with the driver.

> # cd /usr/src/linux-
> # make mrproper
> # make -e KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` oldconfig

That worked

> # make -e KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` dep

This returned "make dep" is not necessary anymore.

rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec failed immediately.

We then did a: -

ln -s /usr/src/linux- /usr/src/linux

rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec

which resulted in the error log. I've attached the full log.

[Vitaly Karasik_1 · Accepted solution]

do you have kernel-devel package installed?

Rgds,
Vitaly

[j0n]

Thanks guys - that did it. I needed to install the kernel-devel package.

[Vipulinux]

Hi

You will always need kernel-devel package is you are building from a source.

Cheers