Building drivers on EL4.0 - What happened to kernel-source?

[Waldher, Travis R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> 
> As I noted in my previous post, 2.6 kernels are a bit different (not a
> lot, but some).  I've not seen RHEL4 up close (well, I've seen
CentOS4)
> and they adhere to the FC2 and FC3 way of doing things.  That means
that
> there is no kernel-source-whatever.rpm.  You have to download and
> install the kernel source RPM (called "kernel-version.src.rpm").  Once
> you've installe that, then you have to do this:
> 
> 	cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> 	rpmbuild -bp --target=i386 kernel-2.6
> 
> Once that's done, there is a full kernel source tree in
> /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.  What I usually do to make it look
> more familiar is to:
> 
> 	cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6
> 	mv linux-shortversion /usr/src/linux-longversion
> 
> "shortversion" is usually something like "2.6.11" (the major release
> number).  "longversion" would include the patch level ("2.6.11-1.27").
>  From that you can do the normal 2.6 kernel build by:
> 
> 	cd /usr/src/linux-longversion
> 	(edit makefile and correct the "EXTRAVERSION" bit)
> 	cp /boot/config-longverion .config
> 	make oldconfig  --OR--  make [x|menu]config
> 	make modules --OR-- make bzImage --OR-- make install


Thank you, that's what I needed to get on with life. Lol

I also added the old link of linux-2.6 to the long version name so it
looks more like it always used to be.