On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > 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.
> 
> I just realized there was a misunderstanding here.  The recompile opera-
> tion I was trying to do was on the installation that resulted directly
> from the four distribution CDs, which were of SL 4.2 and used kernel
> 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.  The source tree I had was entirely what was put there
> by the install procedure, so the missing files were missing because the
> install never put them there.
> 
> I'm considering building a new source tree out of 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.src.rpm
> precisely to get past this omission.

Yes,  you have to build a source tree out of a kernel-...src.rpm ,  if you 
want a 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL. kernel you will have to use the 
2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.src.rpm

-connie sieh
 > 
> - Dushan
> 
>