[PLUG] RH 8.0 Kernel Compiling

Richard Steffens rsteff at attbi.com
Mon Nov 25 23:55:05 UTC 2002


"Karl M. Hegbloom" wrote:

> When you install the Debian kernel-source package, it drops a .tar.bz of
> the kernel into /usr/src.  That tarball opens up into
> "kernel-source-<version>/", rather than into "linux/", so that you can
> have the sources to several kernels installed without conflict.
> 
> I would assume that Red Hat does the similar.

Thanks, Karl. I was hoping to find that to be the case, too. However, in
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/README, under the section "INSTALLING the
kernel:" it says:

------------
"If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a directory
where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and unpack it..." 

"Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a usually incomplete)
set of kernel headers that are used by the library header files. They
should match the library, and not get messed up by whatever the
kernel-du-jour happens to be."
------------

I found kernel-2.4.18-14.src.rpm at the ftp.redhat site. What I don't
know is if that is the full source, or if, when installed, that will
simply replace the stuff in /usr/src that I already have.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens
http://rsteff.home.attbi.com/




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