On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:

> I have Sl 4.2, whose kernel is 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL, and am trying, so far un-
> successfully, to recompile it to provide HPFS support for the OS/2 file
> system.  To help me try to figure out the problem I downloaded the kernel
> source rpm to get at the kernel-2.6.spec file, but in my optimism got the
> version for 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL instead (thinking I might as well ugdate).
> 
> Now I'm wondering whether this was a mistake, because the kernel release
> numbers may need to match exactly for a 'build' operation.  Is that the
> case?

Build what?

If you have created the kernel source tree via the  
2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm then you will end up with a 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL 
kernel.
 
> 
> I'm only thinking the new 'build' might be necessary because of missing
> files that the recompile operation calls for, including
> 
>   for 'make mrproper'    the file  'Documentation/DocBook/Makefile'
> 
> and
>   for 'make rpm'     \ / the files 'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h'
>    or 'make bzImage' / \           'include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h.tmp'
>                         \      and 'arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s'
> 

How did you get the kernel source tree out of 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm .  
It seems that you are missing things.

> 
> Any guidance to help me complete the recompile would be mightily appre-
> ciated.  You can no doubt tell that I'm a linux neophyte.
> 
> - Dushan Mitrovich
> 

-Connie Sieh