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Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze




Hi Ben,

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:

I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this:

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml
--- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530
+++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0530
@@ -176,7 +176,16 @@
  	    <tt><em>target</em>_<em>arch</em>_<em>featureset</em>_<em>flavour</em></tt>.
  	    Replace the <tt><em>featureset</em></tt> with
  	    <tt>none</tt> if you do not want any of the extra
-	    featuresets.
+	    featuresets. This command will build the linux image and
+	    kernel headers packages. You will also need

Not 'will', but 'may'.

Why 'may'? You mean because it might fail?

+	    the <tt>linux-headers-<em>version</em>-common</tt> binary
+	    package, which can be built using the commands:
+	    <example>
+	      $ fakeroot debian/rules source
+	      $ fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_i386_none_real

All space in <example> elements, except on the same lines as the
starting and ending tags, is copied verbatim.  So you should not indent
the lines between them.

Ok. I'll bear that in mind.

+            </example>
+            The target in this command has the general form of
+	    <tt><em>target</em>_<em>arch</em>_<em>featureset</em>_<em>real</em></tt>
  	  </p>
  	</sect1>
        </sect>

I've applied this with changes as noted.

Thanks.

                          Regards, Faheem


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