Quote Originally Posted by Tiger
The short version of the story.

I'm running Knoppix 3.3-11-19 on a HD install.
I downloaded and unpacked kernel-source-2.6.0-test9.
Made a symlink between that directory and "linux.
cd'd to linux and tried to run both make xconfig and make menuconfig.
Here's the error I'm getting.

Code:
root@tiger:/usr/src# cd linux
root@tiger:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/fixdep
In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:24,
                 from scripts/fixdep.c:107:
/usr/include/bits/socket.h:305:24: asm/socket.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [scripts/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts/fixdep] Error 2
root@tiger:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/fixdep
In file included from /usr/include/sys/socket.h:35,
                 from /usr/include/netinet/in.h:24,
                 from scripts/fixdep.c:107:
/usr/include/bits/socket.h:305:24: asm/socket.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [scripts/fixdep] Error 1
make: *** [scripts/fixdep] Error 2
I went looking for /usr/include/bits/socket.h and it's there.

Any ideas?
Have you tried getting test11 and seeing if the error persists? That is the latest test kernel and you may as well be using it anyway and if I am reading the error correctly you should be looking for asm/socket.h it cannot find that file called from the bits/socket.h.

BTW did you know you should be using the fakeroot package to compile the kernel instead of doing it as root? A guide to compiling the kernel the Debian way.