What does this error message mean? I am trying to run make. It looks like configure is missing. Configure is part of the kernel source?

make -C /lib/modules/4.2.0-19-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE modules

make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-19-generic'

CC [M] /home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE/ax88179_178a.o

/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE/ax88179_178a.c:55:6: error: macro "__TIME__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time]

" " __TIME__ " " __DATE__ "\n"

^

/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE/ax88179_178a.c:55:19: error: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time]

" " __TIME__ " " __DATE__ "\n"

^

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

scripts/Makefile.build:264: recipe for target '/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE/ax88179_178a.o' failed

make[2]: *** [/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE/ax88179_178a.o] Error 1

Makefile:1398: recipe for target '_module_/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE' failed

make[1]: *** [_module_/home/glochild/Downloads/AX88179_178A_LINUX_DRIVER_v1.10.0_SOURCE] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.2.0-19-generic'

Makefile:30: recipe for target 'default' failed

make: *** [default] Error 2

解决方案

In your Makefile add this to the CFLAGS variable

-Wno-date-time

this will disable the warning, and since warnings are treated as errors because the Makefile is passing -Werror with the CFLAGS the code can't compile.