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I am having a similar problem to this post: Failed to build EVDI installing dispalylink drivers (when installing a Dell Adapter DA100)

as in fact my output is 

sudo ./displaylink-driver-1.3.54.run 
[sudo] password di myname: 
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing DisplayLink Linux Driver 1.3.54  100%  
DisplayLink Linux Software 1.3.54 install script called: install
Distribution discovered: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Installing
Configuring EVDI DKMS module
Registering EVDI kernel module with DKMS
Building EVDI kernel module with DKMS
ERROR (code 3): Failed to build evdi/1.3.54. Consult /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.3.54/build/make.log for details..

and the funny thing is that I cannot access the make.log file. If I try to cd there I get denied access in the build folder where the make.log file should be. As you can see from above my Ubuntu is 16.04.2 so I guess I don't need to upgrade the OS.

johnhenry
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  • does the directory /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.3.54/build/ exist and with what permissions? sudo ls -l /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.3.54/build/make.log). I guess the build directory is removed if the build is successful (I don't have it on my system), but could be as simple as your personal user doesn't have read permissions. – mgor Aug 08 '17 at 09:25
  • @mgor that's the output of your command: – johnhenry Aug 08 '17 at 09:33
  • -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3058 ago 8 11:20 /var/lib/dkms/evdi/1.3.54/build/make.log – johnhenry Aug 08 '17 at 09:34
  • This is for the same problem as your other question Failed to build EVDI installing dispalylink driver, right? Assuming that is the case, we should close this as a duplicate so people who find this know to go there and so continued work on the problem can be consolidated there. – Eliah Kagan Aug 12 '17 at 11:44

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