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Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity



On 9/21/2010 7:27 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2010, Arthur Machlas was heard to say:
>> My guess is you need to build the header at least, and perhaps the
>> source. It depends on how you're building the modules I suppose. In
>> any case, you'll have to run either
>> fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 kernel_headers
>> fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 kernel_image
> 
> Ok, I did build the headers as a package, and installed it, so now 
> there's a /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.36-rc4-curt1.0/ and the same 
> error comes up:
> 
> /var/log/vbox-install.log
> Makefile:170: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.36-rc4) does not 
> match the current kernel (version 2.6.36-rc4-curt1.0). Stop.


Had the same problem!

Instead of using --append-to-version, use the version append in *kernel
config*

make menuconfig, search around for "Append to version"

make-kpkg doesn't monger linux/version.h IIRC.

-- 

Morgan Gangwere

>> Why?
Because it breaks the logical flow of conversation, plus makes
messages unreadable.
>>> Top-Posting is evil.

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