Module.symvers missing?

[Andrew Farris]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 10:15 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:

> Here is some more info on the missing file:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/79984/
> 
> Philip
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:34:07AM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> > I am trying to build the ndiswrapper module on FC2, test2. This uses the Makefile in
> > /lib/modules/2.6.5-xxx/build. The compilation fails because
> > /lib/modules/2.6.5-xxx/build/Module.symvers is missing. I am using the
> > latest kernel from rawhide. It used to work with an older 2.6 in FC1.
> > 
> > Philip

Added a comment to bug #120944 regarding this issue.  It is dup of
#121132.

You can create the file by doing a full rebuild of the kernel-source in
the directory.. then copying the file out to
the /lib/modules/-ver-/build directory.

I also changed my Makefile to stop 'make mrproper' from destroying
Modules.symvers as a short term workaround since my rebuilds of
livna.org nVIDIA kernel module RPMs require making a copy of the entire
source tree (and then it does a mrproper).  As commented by Arjan the
Makefile (for the module) is certainly broken, but we have to workaround
it.
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