Subject: Trouble in re-installing kernel source
From: Ren Bourion (rene.bourion@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 09:02:36 MST
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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