failed build using module-assistant

[John Pye]

I couldn't manage to build kqemu-source using module-assistant. It gave me a message about being unable to find the source code, even though I had installed kqemu-source and followed the instructions in README.Debian.

I cd'ed to the source direction and ./configure && make install and it appears to work fine. But the module-assistant technique seems to be broken.

This was on a system recently upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid.

[Jason Ash (wizardofki)]

I'm having this same problem in Jaunty (9.04). I tried to follow the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo, and I have the kqemu-source and kqemu-common installed. These instructions worked perfectly in Ubuntu 8.04, but after I upgraded to 9.04 (fresh install), I experienced this problem upon trying to re-setup kquemu. Here's the output of the terminal:

jason@jason-laptop:~$ sudo module-assistant prepare
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.28-13-generic
Kernel headers available in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic
Creating symlink...
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done!
jason@jason-laptop:~$ sudo module-assistant auto-install kqemu

Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.28-13-generic
Kernel headers available in /usr/src/linux
Creating symlink...
Couldn't create the /usr/src/linux symlink!
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done!
unpack
The source tarball could not be found!
Package kqemu-source not installed?
Running "m-a -f get kqemu-source" may help.
"/usr/share/modass/packages/default.sh" build KVERS=2.6.28-13-generic
KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic KDREV=2.6.28-13.45
kdist_image
jason@jason-laptop:~$

[Jason Ash (wizardofki)]

BTW, trying the alternative method of installing from /usr/src/kqemu did not work either. Make clean was necessary because choosing make again didn't do anything (make:nothing to be done for 'all'.) See terminal output below:

jason@jason-laptop:/usr/src$ ls
kqemu-1.4.0~pre1 linux-OLDVERSION.1247445960
linux-headers-2.6.28-11 linux-OLDVERSION.1247445973
linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic linux-OLDVERSION.1247446470
linux-headers-2.6.28-13 linux-OLDVERSION.1247447415
linux-headers-2.6.28-13-generic linux-OLDVERSION.1247447431
linux-OLDVERSION.1247440843 linux-OLDVERSION.1247448443
linux-OLDVERSION.1247441546 linux-OLDVERSION.1247448459
linux-OLDVERSION.1247441573 linux-OLDVERSION.1247448636
linux-OLDVERSION.1247442304 linux-OLDVERSION.1247450572
linux-OLDVERSION.1247442327 linux-OLDVERSION.1247453417
linux-OLDVERSION.1247443244 linux-OLDVERSION.1247453428
linux-OLDVERSION.1247443275 modules
jason@jason-laptop:/usr/src$ cd kqemu-1.4.0~pre1/
jason@jason-laptop:/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1$ sudo ./configure
Source path /usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1
C compiler gcc
Host C compiler gcc
make make
host CPU i386

kernel sources /lib/modules/2.6.28-13-generic/build
kbuild type 2.6
jason@jason-laptop:/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1$ sudo make
make: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
jason@jason-laptop:/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1$ sudo make clean
make -C common clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1/common'
rm -f *.o *~ monitor-image.h genoffsets genmon monitor_def.h \
          monitor-image.bin monitor-image.out \
          i386/*.o x86_64/*.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1/common'
rm -f kqemu.ko *.o *~
jason@jason-laptop:/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1$ sudo make
make -C common all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kqemu-1.4.0~pre1/common'
gcc -Wall -O2 -Werror -g -D__KERNEL__ -I.. -o genoffsets genoffsets.c
./genoffsets > monitor_def.h
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I..
-D__ASSEMBLY__ -c -o i386/nexus_asm.o i386/nexus_asm.S
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I..
-D__ASSEMBLY__ -c -o i386/monitor_asm.o i386/monitor_asm.S
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
-fno-stack-protector -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
-I. -I.. -c -o monitor.o monitor.c
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
-fno-stack-protector -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
-I. -I.. -c -o monitor-utils.o monitor-utils.c
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
-fno-stack-protector -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include
-I. -I.. -c -o interp.o interp.c
ld -T i386/monitor.ld -o monitor-image.out i386/nexus_asm.o
i386/monitor_asm.o monitor.o monitor-utils.o interp.o
objcopy -O binary monitor-image.out monitor-image.bin
gcc -Wall -O2 -Werror -g -o genmon genmon.c
./genmon < monitor-image.bin > monitor-image.h
gcc -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -Werror
-D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I.. -c -o kernel.o
kernel.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -I. -I..
-D__ASSE...

[Jason Ash (wizardofki)]

The build still failed using module-assistant, but the compile method works after all. Thanks.