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