Re: Missing modpost when trying to compile kernel module on 2.6.15

["Grégoire Druant" <d dot greg7 at gmail dot com>]

Le Dimanche 05 Mars 2006 10:20, Jakub Ružička a écrit :
> Hello everyone.
>
> I read through mailing list about modpost and there are some people with
> same problem as me, but no solvation. I have Etch with 2.6.15-1-k7 stock
> kernel, x.org 6.8 and and fglrx packages (8.20.8) from sid. I am folowing
> Flavio's howto (I successfuly compiled module in 2.6.12 that way) - I
> configure kernel sources with make-kpkg(I wonder how to do it so default
> values from .config would be used without asking me on each option), and
> run 'module-assistant a-i fglrx'. Everything seems ok but compilation fails
> because it can't find scripts/mod/modpost. Modpost source is here so I
> guess it is just not compiled... If is it so, how can I compile modpost
> without compiling whole kernel? Any other Ideas ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jakub Ružička

Hi,

I had the same problem for each module I tried to build, and I found a 
solution while google-ing a little :

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/1005.html

Run make modules_prepare before trying to build your module and it should be 
ok.