[ltp] building thinkpad-source on debian

[joe peterson]

it appears that you need to apt-get the package 'fakeroot'. Assuming the 
syntax is correct from the README this should work, or alternatively you 
can use fakeroot in the following way:
fakeroot make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image

hope this helps.


> I have a 600X-5EU-2645 running debian unstable. I want to bulid the 
> thinkpad-source package to get access to all the power saving 
> features. I'm running kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686, and have these kernel 
> packages installed:
>
> kernel-doc-2.6.4           2.6.4-1
> kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686   2.6.4-1
> kernel-package             8.086
> kernel-source-2.6.4        2.6.4-1
> linux-kernel-headers       2.5.999-test7-bk-15
>
> I copied /boot/config-2.6.4-1-686 to 
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.4/.config and ran `make oldconfig`. Then I 
> run `make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot modules-image` as instructed in 
> /usr/share/doc/thinkpad-source/README.Debian, and get this:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/thinkpad'
> fakeroot /usr/bin/make -w -f debian/rules binary-modules
> make[1]: fakeroot: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/thinkpad'
> Module /usr/src/modules/thinkpad failed.
> Perhaps /usr/src/modules/thinkpad does not understand --rootcmd?
>
> Is there a package I forgot to install, or some step I didn't take 
> prepping the sources?
>
> Should I worry about the EXTRAVERSION variable in the kernel Makefile? 
> It appears to be blank by default, but uname -a output looks like I 
> should define it as "-1-686" to match the kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686 
> package kernel.