Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

["Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <tech@patterson-pcc.com>]

On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:41:48 pm Celejar wrote:
> > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file
> > that explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed
> > dependency.
>
> It isn't needed for building the kernel, or even for configuring it
> unless you choose to do so via 'make menuconfig'.  From the
>
> kernel-package README:
> > Before you go any further, please allow me to point out that you need to
> > have a few other packages installed before you can compile your own
> > kernels (it is difficult to compile anything without a compiler ;-).
> >
> > Firstly, you will need gcc, the libc development package (libc5-dev or
> > libc6-dev at the time of writing), and, on Intel platforms, bin86. [If
> > you use the menuconfig target of make, you will need ncursesX.X-dev,
> > and make xconfig also requires either tkX.X-dev for 2.4.X kernels, or
> > libqt3-mt-dev and g++ >= 3.0 for the new 2.6 kernel versions, and 2.6.X
> > kernels also have an additional option, make gconfig, which requires
> > libglade2-dev, and other packages these depend on]
> >
> >
> > Randy
>
> Celejar

Obviously I needed to have read the README a little more closely than I had!! 
They couldn't have written that any more clearly.

Thanks,
Randy