[Pvfs2-users] configure: error: The kernel source tree must have been configured.

[Amit H Kumar]

"Sumit Narayan" <sumnaray at gmail.com> wrote on 03/11/2008 03:53:22 PM:

> Hi Amit,
>
> Did you try 'make menuconfig' inside the kernel source tree?
>
> --Sumit

Hi Sumit,

I am getting confused to where to type the above make command.

As far as I understand the kernel source tree is under /usr/src/linux-2.6/

In my case: kernel source tree forms to be a circular symbolic links, as
shown below
######
#ls -l /usr/src/linux-2.6/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 41 Feb 27 09:38 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686 ->
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686

# ls -l /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 41 Feb 27 09:38 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686 ->
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686
######

Hence I tried to execute the above mentioned make command in
/usr/src/pvfs2/src/kernel/linux-2.6/
=> make menuconfig, didn't work. :(

Just to make sure, I did the right thing : I ran the patch command
# patch -p0 < pathes/patchfile_pointed_by_robl
from /usr/src/pvfs2 directory, Hope this is right.

Thank you,
«Amit»