* Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>, 2003-07-01 10:16 -0400: > * Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de> [030701 10:13]: > > I'm trying to compile a 2.4.21 kernel on my woody system. I apt-got > > -b kernel-source-2.4.21 and installed all resulting .deb files. > > Hmm this is a little strange. What _exactly_ did you do? Like I said, plus I made a symlink /usr/src/linux to the unpacked kernel source. Had forgotten to mention this. > Normally the steps would be something like: > > sudo apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.21 > cd /usr/src > tar xjf kernel-source-2.4.21.tar.bz2 > cd kernel-source-2.4.21 > fakeroot make-kpkg kernel-image ...etc > sudo dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.4.21*.deb > > > However when I cd to the source directory > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.21-2.4.21 and do "make-kpkg clean > > ; make-kpkg --config=menuconfig --initrd kernel_image modules_image", > > it doesn't compile because of a missing "dummy do_dep" (IIRC). Could > > anyone please give me a hint here? > > Again, what _exactly_ was the error message? > > Nick. Sorry Nick, after I had erased the debian dir, the error was gone, and I could compile the kernel just fine. -Andre
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