Re: Including kernel header files in a make-file

[Douglas Royds]

Encouraged by a posting on alt.os.linux.mandrake, I took another crack 
at my downloaded RPM file, with the following result:
                                                                                                                             

rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.22.10mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
                                                                                                                             

[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ ls /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES
linux-2.4.22-q10.tar.bz2  linux-mdkconfig.h       
linux-merge-modules.awk  README.Mandrake
linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2      linux-merge-config.awk  README.kernel-sources
                                                                                                                             

I used file-roller to extract part of linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2 (there must 
have been a command-line way of doing this). I now have a bucket-full of 
header files in /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/include/linux/, but no version.h, 
being the file that gave me the error message in the first place. Here's 
the error message again:
                                                                                                                             

#error "To build kernel modules please do the following:"
#error ""
#error " o Have the kernel sources installed"
                                                                                                                             

Done. Hooray.
                                                                                                                             

#error " o Make sure that the symbolic link"
#error "   /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build exists and points to"
#error "   the matching kernel source directory"
                                                                                                                             

Which directory do they mean? I assume /usr/src/linux-2.4.22/. Anyway, 
how do you make a symbolic link? I think that I can do it in Nautilus, 
but how do you do it at the command line?
                                                                                                                             

#error " o Now copy /boot/vmlinuz.version.h to"
#error "   /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include/linux/version.h"
                                                                                                                             

Gotcha. There is no /boot/vmlinuz.version.h. Here's /boot:
                                                                                                                             

[EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ ls /boot
boot.0300            diag2.img                kernel.h@              
message-graphic          us.klt
config@              grub/                    kernel.h-2.4.22-10mdk  
message-text             vmlinuz@
config-2.4.22-10mdk  initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img  map                    
System.map@              vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk
diag1.img            initrd.img@              message@               
System.map-2.4.22-10mdk
                                                                                                                             

What do I do now? Buy an Apple? Man, this is a steep learning curve. 
Freedom sure don't come cheap. When's that 
bring-it-along-and-give-it-a-crack night? This is a laptop, after all.