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Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18 [Solved]



On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:59:32AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Also here, the tarball must be untarred, which I figured out myself, and
> > 
> 
> Sorry - forgot that step!
> 
> > there must be a softlink 
> > /usr/src/linux that points to
> > /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.18, 
> > which was pointed out to me by Griz Inabnit
> > 
> 
> No, you do not need such a link. It works fine to compile in
> /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.18. If you prefer to compile in /usr/src/linux
> then you need the link. If you prefer to compile in /usr/src/disneyland
> then you need a symlink there.

Actually I tried it both with the link and without the link.
With the link all the modules where created in the kernel-image deb file. 
But without the link only a tiny fraction of the requested modules where
created by make-kpkg. I think make-kpkg really does need a soft link
whose name is linux, not a soft link to a target named linux.

But probably it is not make-kpkg that needs the link so much as some kernel
build script that is invoked by make-kpkg. 

> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@quiknet.com    


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