[lug] Building RedHat's kernel?

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Scott:
I believe your first step needs to be make mrproper.  Then copy the .config over 
and to the usual make xconfig; make dep; make clean; make modules; make 
modules_install (and maybe make bzImage).

Ferdinand

Scott A. Herod wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   I'm trying to patch a driver in the 2.4.2 kernel that came with
> RH 7.1.  I'd really like to build only that one module and ship
> it around, but that requires a valid kernel build in
> /usr/src/kernel-2.4.
> Correct?  Anyway, I can build a kernel.org version of 2.4.2 without
> any problem, but the driver in that build does not match RH's 
> because of missing dependencies.  ( I used the
> config/kernel-2.4.2-i386.config
> file that RH ships with their kernel source. )
> 
>   Is there some way to compile RH's shipped version of the kernel from 
> their source tree?  The build fails in "make modules".  My steps are:
> 
> rpm -i ( kernel-source-2.4.2-2 source off the 7.1 disk ).
> cd /usr/src/kernel-2.4
> cp config/kernel-2.4.2-i386.config .config
> make clean
> make xconfig ( merely save and exit.  You've got to do this step. )
> make dep
> make
> make modules  ( This fails at the first file. )
> 
> Is there some issue with the version of gcc?  I have to do nothing
> special
> with the kernel.org version, which btw builds fine even when I copied 
> RH's config file as above.  I did switch the Makefile to use kgcc
> instead
> and it still couldn't build RH's at the make modules step.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
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