Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>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?

What I meant was concoct a new, updated kernel.  Maybe I should have said
'rpmbuild', but I'm not sure of the terminology.
 
> 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.

Yes, that's my understanding, but I haven't created that source tree yet.
Right now all I have is what's in the 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL directory.

>> 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.

I'm sure I am, and I haven't got the source tree yet, not being sure how to
do it.  In fact, do I even need to, to get past the missing files problems?

>> 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