IPF on ubuntu

Carsten Aulbert carsten at welcomes-you.com
Mon Dec 18 20:06:36 UTC 2006


Jeremy Kister wrote:
> I'm trying to build IPF 4.1.15 (or PF) working on Ubuntu server 6.06.

> errors include:
> /usr/include/linux/config.h:1:2: error: #error "Compilation aborted. 
> Please read the FAQ for linux-libc-headers package."
> /usr/include/linux/config.h:2:2: error: #error "(can be found at 
> http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/doc/)"

> the Makefile: http://www.broadviewnet.net/tmp/Makefile
> result of "make linux": http://www.broadviewnet.net/tmp/make_linux.txt

> I've read the libc-headers FAQ, but have no clue where to go next.
> Has anyone any clues to share?

For me, it looks like you are missing the kernel and/or libc header
files. Have you installed the following packages?


linux-headers-generic (assuming you are running the generic kernel)
libc6-dev

(apt-get install build-essential will not hurt either).

HTH

Carsten




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