Subject: Re: Trouble in re-installing kernel source
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 09:13:40 MST
That sounds wacky to me. You probably just want to
rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.10-12a.ppc.rpm
And also make sure you have kernel-headers-2.4.10-12a.ppc.rpm installed.
René Bourion wrote:
> Hello, can someone help me here?
>
> Following a suggestion by Avinash Gupta, I tried to install the ALSA sound
> drivers. So I had to run the config script:
>
> ./configure --with-cards=pmac
>
> This process stopped with the following lines:
>
> **begin quote**
> checking for kernel version... The file
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h does
> not exist.
> Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution
> or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel
> sources (default is /usr/src/linux).
> **end quote**
>
> And indeed, this version.h file is missing. I therefore decided to try a new
> installation of the kernel: in /usr, I saved /src by renaming it, and
> created a new empty one, with the five dirs /BUILD, etc under /src/rpm.
>
> I copied the src.rpm from the Source CD into my /home partition, and did
>
> rpm -ivh /home/kernel-2.4.10-12a.src.rpm
>
> Then I went to /SPECS and did
>
> rpm -ba --clean --rmsource kernel-2.4.spec
>
> The operation went to its end without any error message. Inspecting the
> files, I found that:
>
> /BUILD is empty
> /SOURCES is empty
> The spec file remains in /SPECS
> The binary rpms are in /RPMS
> The src rpm is in /SRPMS
> In /var/tmp, the build directory /kernel-2.4.10 has been wiped out.
>
> All that looks all right, ***BUT*** the dir /usr/src/linux-2.4.10 (and the
> link /linux) is missing altogether and is not to be found elsewhere: and yet
> these directories are named in the spec file!
>
> I have tried to follow exactly the indications of man.rpm and RPM HOWTO, but
> I seem to have done something wrong. I had a look at the lists, but I did
> not find anything directly relevant.
>
> Could someone point out my error? I should be very grateful.
>
> R.B.
>
>
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