Thanks everyone who had an idea. Turned out I needed libc6-dev (as
indicated by Jeff) and the libncurses5-dev to get the show going.
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Michael Lake wrote:
Craige McWhirter wrote:
I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
clean Potato install,
Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not familiar with previous versions of Debian but 2.2 (out in a day
or so I hope) puts them in /usr/src/kernel-source-version
It goes back to the days when Manoj Srivastava were the libc maintainer.
He also wrote the FAQ covering this issue which is
Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to work out what Debian package I need to install to
supply me with files such as sys/types.h, fcntl.h etc, related
to making a kernel. These files usually live in /usr/include.
I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
I'm trying to work out what Debian package I need to install to
supply me with files such as sys/types.h, fcntl.h etc, related
to making a kernel. These files usually live in /usr/include.
I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
clean Potato install, the other an upgrade
I think I'll try your idea because the problem doesn't make sense to me
either. It's been a few years since I've compiled a kernel but I don't
recall having silly problems like this.
I'd provide the complete error but it's on a none networked machine.
Firstly
it complains there is no
Michael Lake wrote:
Craige McWhirter wrote:
I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
clean Potato install, the other an upgrade from Slink to Potato.
Ah the replies to this will provide some info between how
Debian and RH packages can answer this question.
If you tell LInus this, he will hate you forever.
As far as he is concerned *any* distribution which make kernel source
available under /usr/src/linux is broken (read the release note for 2.4).
I'm not familiar with previous versions of Debian but 2.2 (out in a day
or so I hope) puts