SatanicRaw
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4 years ago Hey. Install bc, run make RT_CFLAGS = "- Wno-error = date-time" instead of make.
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jimmyarn
Please help. I am a very new linux user. When I attempt to compile the driver for install I get the following error. What is going wrong here?
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Reading package lists... Done root@kali:/home/kali# mkdir -p ~/build root@kali:/home/kali# cd ~/build root@kali:~/build# git clone https://github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU.git Cloning into 'rtl8821CU'... remote: Enumerating objects: 63, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (63/63), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (62/62), done. remote: Total 1403 (delta 23), reused 9 (delta 1), pack-reused 1340 Receiving objects: 100% (1403/1403), 5.57 MiB
/root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c: In function ‘dump_drv_version’: /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:45:62: error: macro "DATE" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] 45 | RTW_PRINT_SEL(sel, "build time: %s %s\n", DATE, TIME); | ^ In file included from /root/build/rtl8821CU/include/drv_types.h:60, from /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:17: /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:45:44: error: macro "TIME" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] 45 | RTW_PRINT_SEL(sel, "build time: %s %s\n", DATE, TIME); | ^
~~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/include/rtw_debug.h:114:34: note: in definition of macro ‘RTW_PRINT’ 114 | _dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX fmt, ##arg);\ | ^~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:45:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘RTW_PRINT_SEL’ 45 | RTW_PRINT_SEL(sel, "build time: %s %s\n", DATE, TIME); | ^~~~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:45:54: error: macro "DATE" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] 45 | RTW_PRINT_SEL(sel, "build time: %s %s\n", DATE, TIME); | ^~~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/include/rtw_debug.h:114:34: note: in definition of macro ‘RTW_PRINT’ 114 | _dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX fmt, ##arg);\ | ^~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:45:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘RTW_PRINT_SEL’ 45 | RTW_PRINT_SEL(sel, "build time: %s %s\n", DATE, TIME); | ^~~~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.c:45:44: error: macro "TIME" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] 45 | RTW_PRINT_SEL(sel, "build time: %s %s\n", DATE, TIME); | ^~~~ /root/build/rtl8821CU/include/rtw_debug.h:224:25: note: in definition of macro ‘RTW_PRINT_SEL’ 224 | _seqdump(sel, fmt, ##arg) /rtw_warn_on(1)/; \ | ^~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[3]: [/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-kali2-common/scripts/Makefile.build:271: /root/build/rtl8821CU/core/rtw_debug.o] Error 1 make[2]: [/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-kali2-common/Makefile:1665: /root/build/rtl8821CU] Error 2 make[1]: [/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-kali2-common/Makefile:179: sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-kali2-amd64' make: [Makefile:2213: modules] Error 2