Ok everyone sorry about the posting of hundreds of lines of source code I
felt that it was needed and apparently you don't. I was just being
thorough. I promise its not intended to upset anyone. I swear!
Also keepin mind this is the real world and I own a 486 with 8 megs of ram
and a small hard drive. I did not install a compiler except to accommodate
qmail on this machine. I compiled the 2.2.16 kernel on a fast machine and
moved it to the 486 which is the proposed mail server. I suppose I could do
the same with the qmail program but as you can tell I am not adept at this
sort of thing.
SO I suppose I "need" to install the kernel sources even though the files
are on my drive? Why? If they are there why not move them or link them
somehow?
After all it seems that I am limited to the actual steps in the INSTALL
docs. lesss I lose this last line of tech support. I don't want to get
creative and start "doing it my way" now do I? Or you guys will just yell
at me again!
I can re-install the entire machine with red hat 6.0 then upgrade every
package again, but I don't see the need its a fresh 112 meg install with the
various applications upgraded as needed to meet security issues that have
arisen as of late.
I do not want to re-install the entire machine but can. I can install the
kernel source and headers if needed but I am low on space.
Suggestions on what to do?
(I am reading the nice replys and trying them first thanks guys)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 2:11 AM
Subject: Re: linuxpeople thread
> Please don't post hundreds of lines of directory listings of the qmail
> source.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > /compile qmail-local.c
> > qmail-local.c:1: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
> > qmail-local.c:2: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory
>
> There's something seriously wrong with your system include files; both of
> those files should be in /usr/include. This is *not* a problem with your
> kernel sources as another person said (if it were, sys/types.h would be
> found and linux/types.h would be missing); it's a problem at an even
> earlier level than that.
>
> Your system's development environment is either corrupted or only
> partially installed at a very fundamental level.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
