Re: Palm sync with YDL


Subject: Re: Palm sync with YDL
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 15:52:03 MDT


On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Scott Frankel wrote:

> That failed because I don't have ncurses installed. (What's ncurses?)

        You need the ncurses and ncurses-devel RPMs.

> Then I tried make xconfig. That fails because it can't find some hdr files:
> stdio.h, string.h, &c.

        You need the glibc-devel RPM.

> Anyone have a quick, 1, 2, 3 on how to compile a kernel?

        Once you get all the RPMs, you:

                1. cd /usr/src/linux
                2. Edit the Makefile and make EXTRAVERSION be something else
                   like:

                        EXTRAVERSION = -sf

                   i.e., your initials. Then

                3. make xconfig
                4. Load the old config from the configs subdirectory.
                5. Add in IrDA as shown on my pages.
                6. Save and exit.
                7. make dep
                8. make && make modules && make modules_install
                9. Install the kernel:

                        strip vmlinux
                        cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.4.x-sf
                        cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.x-sf

                   (Substitute 2.4.x with your actual kernel version.)

                10. Edit /etc/yaboot.conf and add an entry for you new kernel.
                11. ybin

        Now reboot and select your new kernel.

        - Paul



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