[ale] Can't compile RedHat's kernel.

[Fulton Green]

Man, all the excitement I miss when I go out to lunch. ;-)

Seriously, the "separate kernel headers package" in question is
gcc-kernel-headers.  Do what you will with that bit of knowledge.

Assuming my DSL install goes according to plan by the end of the week,
I'll probably be playing around with the 2.5 kernel tree to see if I can
fix an annoying power-up problem ...

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:21:42PM -0500, Mike Millson wrote:
> My understanding is you need the kernel headers to be installed to compile
> the RH kernel.
> 
> On Monday 06 January 2003 02:05 pm, Stephen Leonard wrote:
> > "Michael D. Hirsch" <mhirsch at nubridges.com> writes:
> > > On Monday 06 January 2003 01:33 pm, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > > > Anyone compiled a RedHat kernel, lately.  I remember there was a
> > > > > time when you needed a special compiler, but I thought those days
> > > > > were over.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to add the usbdnet to my kernel, but when that didn't
> > > > > work I've gone back to the RedHat sources and did make dep && make
> > > > > bzImage && make modules.  In the middle of make bzImage I get crap
> > > > > like:
> > > >
> > > > you're missing a make clean. do that first, before the make dep, etc
> > >
> > > Well, that just introduced new errors.  I should say that before my
> > > error was actually in make modules, not make bzImage as I stated.
> > >
> > > When I did a make clean I got these errors with the redhat i686 config
> > > file.  I still wondering if I'm missing some devel package that would
> > > make all this go away:
> >
> > Does RedHat have a separate kernel headers package that
> > you may be missing?
> 
> It has one, but it is installed, supposedly.  I think you aren't supposed
> to need it to compile the kernel, anyway.  It is for compiling programs
> that need the kernel headers to compile.  The kernel is self sufficient.
> 
> Or so I thought.
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