Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:59:41AM -0500, Tom H wrote: The documentation says - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) which

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:16:29 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote: I remember one issue that occurred very often, in /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION the /build and /source links were missing or bad. ... build - /usr/src/linux-3.6.5-rt14 but correct would be linked against linux-headers-3.6.5-rt14.

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:06:31 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: I found I misread references to 2.6.8. You raise an interesting point. Perhaps references to kernel-image vs. linux-image have outlived their usefulness by now. I will consider removing them in a future revision (and the

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:56:43AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I don't have time to read the current howto now, but I'll read it ASAP. It describes the way I build Debian and Ubuntu kernels since years, but while my scripts are a little bit outdated, Stephen updated his howto.

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Tom H: I've also never seen any Debian documentation pointing to building a kernel elsewhere than in /usr/src/. It's been the RHEL/Fedora way for years though. That doesn´t

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: That RHEL/Fedora dont' use /usr/src might, on its own, not make it good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation perhaps it does! The kernel documentation does not say not to /usr/src, it says not to use /usr/src/linux.

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 01:22:50 AM Tom Furie wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: That RHEL/Fedora dont' use /usr/src might, on its own, not make it good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation perhaps it does! The kernel documentation

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote: That RHEL/Fedora dont' use /usr/src might, on its own, not make it good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation perhaps it does! The kernel

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-12 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:59:41AM -0500, Tom H wrote: The documentation says - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) which basically means don't use /usr/src since a regular user doesn't have write

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:45:20 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:46:09 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Stephen Powell: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:46:09 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. November 2012 schrieb Tom H: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:10:01PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Well, if you apply common sense to what you read, old instructions can still be quite usable. The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) is a good example for that. If there was one common culture then common sense might

compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get errors the end of which is below. I tried to copy and paste

compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get errors the end of which is below. I tried to copy and paste

compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get these errors http://paste.ubuntu.com/1347707/ I tried to

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack But I get errors the end of which is below. I

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 06:35:21 -0500 (EST), Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:31:57AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: Hi, Lisi. My guess is that this is a permissions issue. Is your id a member of group src? (Issue the groups command and see if src is one of the groups listed in the output of the command.) Here is a summary of the permission

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
Hi Stephen - and thanks! On Saturday 10 November 2012 14:31:57 Stephen Powell wrote: My guess is that this is a permissions issue.  Is your id a member of group src?   Yes! [snip] (1) The directory /usr/src must be owned by user root and by group src. It wasn't, and now is. (2) The group

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 13:34:59 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far:

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 15:36:27 Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:31:57AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: Hi, Lisi. My guess is that this is a permissions issue. Is your id a member of group src? (Issue the groups command and see if src is one of the groups listed in the

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Lisi, Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm#Unpack This

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Lisi, Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: Thanks, Martin. Yes, I have looked at the website you refer to, and tried to use it. And I have the book to which you refer. The trouble is, that for the basic stuff they are simply above my head. Stephen gives more explanation and more

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:46:09 -0500 (EST), Martin Steigerwald wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 Lisi Reisz wrote: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long. I am following Stephen's marvellous work, and had got this far:

Re: compiling (or rather, failing to compile) a kernel

2012-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 10 November 2012 18:46:09 Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Samstag, 10. November 2012 schrieb Lisi Reisz: I have been trying to get to grips with compiling a custom kernel. I have been shying away for too long.