[dundee] kernel compilation

[Andrew Clayton]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 22:22, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:07:54PM +0100, keirlawson@btopenworld.com wrote:
> > can somebody direct me to a site about kernel compilation (newbie) or email me some instructions as to how to recompile a kernel.  i need to have the latest one to fix the fuzzy sound.
> 
> To be honest the best explaination is supplied with the kernel,
> download it, uncompress it to /usr/src/linux and read the README. Do

It is probably ok to use /usr/src/linux in newer distros, but older
distros used to have symlinks from /usr/include/linux and
/usr/include/asm to the right bits of /usr/src/linux

The usr/src/linux HAD to match the version of libc/glibc installed. So
putting a new kernel source in there would be a major problem. Today,
certainly with Red Hat, you have a glibc-kernelheaders package which
contains /usr/inlcude/linux and /usr/include/asm so the symlinking is
gone.

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq/index.php3#headers


Anyways I always just use a src directory of my home.


> as it says and you should be fine, be aware if you're running XFS, you
> need to patch the kernel first in that case otherwise you're not going
> to have much luck reading the filesystem.
> 
> Mark
> 



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Andrew