On Thursday 15 August 2002 05:58 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 15 August 2002 22:02, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > > > Using "kernel-source-2.4.18-22mdk.i586.rpm" from > > > "MandrakeLinux-9.0beta2-CD3.i586.iso", during the sequence > > > > "make mrproper" should be your first step > > > > > make clean > > > make depend > > > make modules > > > > Stew Benedict > > Maybe adding a README.MANDRAKE in /usr/src/linux would be a smart idea. I > know it has been suggested before and will be suggested later but i think > it will stop this question being asked every month or so on this mailing > list
I apologize for raising a known question again. But I did do what I thought was "due diligence" before sending my note. I've searched several times over the last year in MandrakeForum, the Mandrake "expert" list, and other places (except, unfortunately, the cooker list) for an explanation. The other, general documentation I can find on kernel development indicates that what I tried should work, and I understand now that the problem is somewhat specific to the Mandrake source rpm. I do have to say that unless at least a change to the 'modules.txt' documentation that comes with the kernel doc is made, folks will continue to be surprised when trying to build modules with Mandrake. There was an extensive discussion of this between Andrej Borsenkow and David Relson in May (thread: RE: [Cooker] Clean Kernel Source [was: kernel-2.4.18.14mdk-1-1mdk]). Isn't it undesireable in any case to have a source RPM that doesn't build cleanly "out of the box"?
