[Nottingham] Trouble compiling kernel on suse

[Roger Light]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> On 08/08/10 16:29, Graham Dicker wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 August 2010 14:25:27 Martin wrote:
>>>
>>> Mmmm... Best check that you have actually got installed all that you
>>> need to have installed.
>>
>> I googled for how to build the kernel various places but I have so far found
>> none with an exhaustive list of prerequisites. I don't know how to check in
>> the absence of a prerequisite-checking target in the Makefile.
>
> Check that you've got Gnu make and autoconf installed and then run them
> from a terminal window. Watch for any errors or for anything listed as
> not there.

The kernel doesn't use autoconf, that's a slight red herring.

Graham - I have had problems with compiling packaged kernels on suse
in the past. I've been trying to remember what caused them, but I
haven't had a eureka moment. My best guess so far is that you may have
a version of the kernel headers installed that conflicts with the
kernel you're trying to compile. That's a bit of a weak guess though!

Cheers,

Roger