John Turnbull wrote:
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> Gerry:
>
> Thank you. I would not have discovered that by myself, in a hurry. . .
> It had a dependency problem. It requires libbinutils2-devel. I cannot
> find this animal in the SRPMS subdirectory or in cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/
> but I did find a binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk that I thought might contain a
> libbinutils, but that was not to be. sigh.
>
> Where might I get libbinutils2-devel? John T
Sorry people. I must be going blind, libbinutils2-devel is in
cooker/Mandrake/RPMS. I now have it installed and have unpacked the
kernel 2.2.18 sources. They wound up in /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/linux, but
the structure looks much like a normal kernel source directory. Now I
can do dome real damage (clearly I am on the edge of my competence
level. John T