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