Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:37:17AM +0930, David Branford wrote:
>
>> When I try a "make" in /usr/src/drbd-0.7.17 (where I unpacked the
>> archive) I get:
>>
>> Calling toplevel makefile of kernel source tree, which I believe is in
>> KDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2069_FC4/build
>>
>> SORRY, kernel makefile not found. You need to tell me a correct KDIR!
>>
>>
>> However in /lib/modules I only have:
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 27 23:51 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
>>
>
> You can't have only this directory. Where's the one for your current
> kernel? (2.6.16-1.2069_FC4, I suppose. run 'uname -r' to find out.)
>
> The kernel-devel for 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 can be found in fedora's mirrors,
> like
> ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.i686.rpm
>
> That package includes the Makefile and headers in
> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2069_FC4-i686 (the /lib/modules/.../build
> symlink is included in the kernel rpm).
>
>
>> I don't have a directory matching my currently running kernel, which is
>> 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
>> I have installed and updated the kernel-devel package for fedora core 4
>> ("yum update kernel-devel") and downloaded
>> kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.src.rpm and installed it ("rpm -Uvh
>> kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.src.rpm") however neither of those packages
>> provides it. Do you know which FC4 package provides the needed files here?
>>
>
> The kernel-devel must provide it. But you're missing
> /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2069_FC4... Try the form supplied by Diego:
> make rpm KDIR=/usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-1.2069_FC4-i686
>
> Also, the proper form to use the src.rpm is:
> 1. rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.src.rpm
> 2. rpmbuild -bp --target `uname -m` /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec
>
> The prepared sources will end up in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.16
> (-bc instead of -bp to also compile the kernel and modules).
>
> Good luck
>
>
Thanks everyone for the helpful information; I will refer back to this
message in the future also especially for how to install the kernel
.src.rpm (thanks Luciano).
I have managed to get the drbd module compiled on 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 for
x86_64. I wasn't able to build it on 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 (some files
weren't available - simply installing the kernel-devel package didn't do
it).
However for some reason on the other system, also running FC4 but
running the athlon (i686) kernel, I got it working with
2.6.16-1.2069_FC4. I was able to simply install the kernel-devel package
and the kernel.src.rpm for 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
and everything built OK. Even 'make mrproper' worked.
Thanks again,
David