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FC1 Fedora Core 1 Linux Infrared Remote Control Project (lirc) I'm working on a homebrew lirc-0.6.6 receiver for Fedora Core 1. After extracting the source and running ./configure I immediately ran into complile problems with the following error: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/cwhite/download/lirc-0.6.6/drivers/lirc_serial' DIR=`pwd`; (cd /usr/src/linux/; make SUBDIRS=$DIR obj-m=lirc_serial.o modules) /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl/scripts/pathdown.sh: line 4: TOPDIR: parameter null or not set make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl' make[4]: *** No rule to make target `lirc_serial.o', needed by `modules'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl' make[3]: *** [lirc_serial.o] Error 2 After two days of reading the documentation and searching messages boards for related issues I found a similar solution by googling for lirc TOPDIR: parameter null or not set My problems were resolved when I