Gentoo problem compiling modules

Alan Jackson ajackson
Mon May 17 11:53:33 PDT 2004


On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:04:41 -0400
"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:

> Did you use makeconfig to define whatever it takes to make the module 
> compile?
> 
> Alan Jackson wrote:
> 
> > I installed Gentoo a week ago, and it has mostly been quite smooth.
> > 
> > However.... some, but not all, of my modules missed getting compiled. In
> > particular, usb/printer doesn't seem to want to compile. I ran
> > make modules_install
> > and it didn't help. I get no errors, I just don't get a
> > printer.o file created. Any suggestions?
> > 
> > This is making it hard for me to print!
> > 
> 

Thanks!

What it took was
make config
make dep
make modules

Is there a file I could edit instead of running make config? It has *way*
too many questions!


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