On Wednesday, Aug 20, 2003, at 01:06 Asia/Jerusalem, Mike A. Harris
wrote:
> I've been trying since 2.5.62 with no luck. I upgraded three key
> Shrike
> rpms as recommended, yet every compile attempt aborts with a fatal
> error
> during the 'make modules' subtask. Whenever I change the errant module
> from "M" to "N" in .config and start over, the failure occurs
> somewhere
> else.
>
> True frustration arrived when I found that 'make rpm' behaves as badly
> when run against the Severn kernel-source rpm as it does using a
>
kernel.org tarball. Fewer "deprecated" warnings, but still.....
I'll download it and run it through rpm as described above.
And thus began Mike Harris' kernel hacking days!
Seriously though, it's never been a problem to download the kernel
.src.rpm and just build the rpm. Why all the fuss? make rpm works in
2.4 cant speak for anything >
Just a few thoughts,
Jack