RE: Compiling kernel source

["David Turetsky" <davidturetsky@earthlink.net>]

>>> David Turetsky wrote on Sat Feb 15, 2003 um 11:54:36AM:
   
   'uname -r' gives '2.4.18-bf2.4' but 'apt-get install   
   kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4' replies 'Couldn't find package ...
-bf2.4'
   so I installed 2.4.18. The installation went fine. Quite interesting


>>> Andreas Bloch [mailto:inka-user@zombie.inka.de] replied on Saturday,
February 15, 2003 5:39 PM

   Wrong. Use "apt-get source kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4". However, your
   request ist pointless, what you need to get most modules compiled are
   the kernel headers, which you can get with "apt-get install
   kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4".  Point your module building system to
   /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include then.


>>> David Turetsky, following the wise advise of Andreas, got the
>>> following output:

   checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
   checking whether build environment is sane... yes
   checking for gawk... no
   checking for mawk... mawk
   checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
   checking build driver for... HAL_PCT789
   checking for gcc... gcc
   checking for C compiler default output... a.out
   checking whether the C compiler works... yes
   checking whether we are cross compiling... no
   checking for suffix of executables... 
   checking for suffix of object files... o
   checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
   checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
   checking for style of include used by make... GNU
   checking dependency style of gcc... none
   checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
   checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
   checking whether ln -s works... yes
   checking for gawk... (cached) mawk
   checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
   checking for ANSI C header files... yes
   checking for sys/types.h... yes
   checking for sys/stat.h... yes
   checking for stdlib.h... yes
   checking for string.h... yes
   checking for memory.h... yes
   checking for strings.h... yes
   checking for inttypes.h... yes
   checking for stdint.h... yes
   checking for unistd.h... yes
   checking
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18.bf2.2/include/linux/modversions.h
usability... no
   checking
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18.bf2.2/include/linux/modversions.h
presence... no
   checking for
/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18.bf2.2/include/linux/modversions.h... no

   This sounds as though I'm back to square one of trying to get the
   'bf2.4' source. I thought to check in first, given your 'pointless'
   comment

   -- 
   David