At 23:15 06.08.2003 -0700, Greg Morgan wrote:
S Mohan wrote:
I think you will drive yourself nutty trying to compile on the RH box directly. Please read http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_backport.html. I stopped banging my head against the wall once I understood this article. The way RH backports makes for a nice stable platform for the Red Hat way. This is not a bad thing because their testing and assembling of the distro is what you pay for. However, if you try to apply patches to a Red Hat doctored kernel, compiler, or other RPMs, then I believe you will potentially have errors. If your patch does not touch one of their backported areas of the kernel, then you will mostly have success. I believe a RH kernel src like kernel-2.4.20-19.7.src.rpm means kernel 2.4.20 with 19 patches applied but don't hold me to that. The compilers, glibc, and other applications have similar RH numbers.
I believe when using sources from kernel.org you should have no problem compiling the kernel. There is no apparent reason why a kernel _must_ be compiled in /usr/src, so any ole directory will do. Well, the compiler version should be the right one.
Erich
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