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On Monday 15 October 2007 12:53 pm, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> On Monday 15 October 2007 10:59 am, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:52 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 October 2007 10:42 am, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:30 -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> > > > > Hello all.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This past weekend, I added memory to one of my CentOS 3 servers.
> > >
> > > In
> > >
> > > > > order for the memory to be used correctly, I had to install and
> > >
> > > use
> > >
> > > > > kernel-hugemem (2.4.21-52.ELhugemem). After an exhaustive search,
> > >
> > > I'm
> > >
> > > > > unable to come up with the development libraries for
> > >
> > > kernel-hugemem. So,
> > >
> > > > > when I try to compile dazuko, it fails with the following:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dazuko-2.3.4]# ./configure
> > > > >
> > > > > checking host system type... Linux
> > > > >
> > > > > checking for make utility... ok (make)
> > > > >
> > > > > checking for C compiler... ok (cc)
> > > > >
> > > > > kernel source in /lib/modules/2.4.21-52.ELhugemem/source... no
> > > > >
> > > > > kernel build source in /lib/modules/2.4.21-52.ELhugemem/build...
> > >
> > > no
> > >
> > > > > kernel build source in /usr/src/linux... no
> > > > >
> > > > > kernel source in /usr/src/linux... no
> > > > >
> > > > > error: no kernel source files found
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I use dazuko in conjunction with clamav's on-access scanning, so
> > > > >
> > > > > overcoming this stumbling block is very important. Any help would
> > >
> > > be
> > >
> > > > > greatly appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Dimitri
> > > >
> > > > try symlinking /lib/modules/2.4.21-52.ELhugemem/build tp the source
> > >
> > > code
> > >
> > > > of you installed kernel.
> > >
> > > Hussam,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the quick response! /lib/modules/2.4.21-52.ELhugemem/build
> > >
> > > symlinked to the source code of the installed kernel, as per the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Oct 15 08:52 build
> > > -> ../../../usr/src/linux-2.4.21-52.EL
> > >
> > > Now what?
> > >
> > > Dimitri
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > Now try running the configure script again.
>
> Firstly, thanks to Hussam and John for being there.
>
> Actually, this was kinda my bad.  I installed hugemem yesterday, but
> restarted my server this morning.  Both the kernel and hugemem versions
> were 2.4.21-52.EL.  

Er, make that 2.4.21-50.EL.  More coffee, please.

> Then, I tried to recompile dazuko, with the results I 
> mentioned above.  However, I notice via up2date that new kernel versions
> were available, so in installed those, including kernel-2.4.21-52.EL and
> kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-52.EL.  When I compared /lib/modules/2.4.21-50.EL and
> /lib/modules/2.4.21-52.EL, I noticed that a lot was missing from the
> former.  So, I compiled dazuko thusly:
>
> ./comfigure --kernelsrcdir=/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-52.EL && more
>
> and ... joy!  Of course, dazuko won't work until I reboot using 2.4.21-52,
> but that's certainly OK.  I have no idea what happened to the guts
> of /lib/modules/2.4.21-50.EL, cauing the dazuko compile to fail, but I'm
> good now (I think).
>
> Hope you all understood my explanation.
>
> Thanks again.

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