FC5: touble building nvidia-kmod from livna

[Kenny Gow]

Dean S. Messing wrote:
> I'm having the devil of a time building (compiling) the nvidia-kmod
> rpm for the kernel I'm running.  (Why does this have to be so hard!!!)
> 
> Here's what I've done.
> 
> I downloaded 
> 
>  nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
> 
> from livna.  They don't have the module .rpm for the
> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp which I'm running right now so I figured I'd
> "just" build the .rpm.
> 
> I then "installed" the .src.rpm with `rpm -i'.
> 
> Then I  edited the .spec file, changing 
> 
>       %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5}
> 
> 
> to
> 
>       %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5}
> 
> at the beginning of the file.
> 
> I then did
> 
> rpmbuild -bb --target i686 nvidia-kmod.spec
> 
> and get the following error messages:
> 
> Building target platforms: i686
> Building for target i686
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> 	kernel-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
> 	kernel-xen0-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
> 	kernel-kdump-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
> 
> 
> What I do have installed is:
> 
> # `rpm -qa | fgrep kern'
> 
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
> kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
> glibc-kernheaders-3.0-5.2
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Dean
> 
try setting kvariants to smp and make sure kversion is set to your 
kernel version (uname -r)