Re: 2.4.0 Module compile error

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:23:29 -0600, 
George R. Kasica <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
>>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
>>cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
>>mkdir -p pcmcia; \
>>find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{}
>>pcmcia
>>if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.4.0; fi
>>depmod: /lib/modules//2.2.18/modules.dep is not an ELF file
>>depmod: error reading ELF header

You have a broken modules.conf that tells depmod to scan _all_ of
/lib/modules or you have an old version of modules or you have some
weird symlinks in /lib/modules.  It looks like you have some dangling
symlinks, although I cannot be certain about that.