Re: Kernel COmpile Problems
>>"Ronald" == Ronald Castillo <ronaldace@coolmail.net> writes:
Ronald> Thanks for your help.. I'll do that. I also think
Ronald> kernel-source should recommend that. Otherwise, how would
Ronald> newbies like me do without help from this mailing list?
Firstly, this is not required for the forthcoming 2.4 series
kernels. Secondly, kernel-package is an arch all package, and bin86
does not even exist on any other architecture than the i356, so
dependencies are definitely out.
The description of the kernel-source package, the README
files, the README files for the kernel-package package, the Debian
FAQ's, all explain that if you need to compile a kernel on an i386
machine, you need to download the bin86 package. It also appears on
the Bug list at frequent intervals.I still think people should read
those prior to compiling a kernel. Not having bin86 is only the
smallest of gotchas in a kernel compile.
I strongly recommend that people compiling kernels should read
these docs ;-) I repeat: People should not try to compile a kernel who
do not read docs. Consider this a security feature.
Thus, this lack of a explicit dependency is by design. The
requirement is documented enough that people have ample opportunity
to discover this on their own.
manoj
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