need help for installing source code

[Kuldeep Prakash]

Hello Paul 
 thanx for the quick suggestion ,  When I tried doing that I was in
root login , but nothing got installed in the /usr/src/redhat
directory.
thanx and regards
Kuldeep


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:53:28 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Kuldeep Prakash wrote:
> > Hello Paul
> >   I am feeling little stupid now , I have been trying to build kernel
> > for last 2 weeks but am stuck till now.
> >     I tried the following the steps mentioned at the  link
> >  
> http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/steps.html
> > but couldn't even pass through the first step mentioned in the doc.
> >  That is
> >   ~/.rpmmacros
> > couldn't find this file in my installation.
> 
> That's because it's a file you're supposed to create, it's not an 
> existing file. I think that could be clearer in the instructions though.
> 
> > But than I went to the fourth step 
> > 
> > •  Install Source
> > Use rpm to install the kernel source code. 
> > rpm -ihv kernel-XXX.src.rpm
> > 
> > but got the error as I had mentioned in my last mail.
> 
> That's because, without the ~/.rpmmacros file, it'll try to install the 
> source in /usr/src/redhat, which you'd need to be root to be able to do.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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