ok. I thought kernel-smp-devel *was* the sources package. What is it then?<br><br>Many thanks for the help. Am downloading the src.rpm package now. I'll see how I get on.<br><br>- martin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 20/08/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nigel Henry</b> <<a href="mailto:cave.dnb@tiscali.fr">cave.dnb@tiscali.fr</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:07, Martin Dupras wrote:<br>> Am I missing something obivous? I want to re-compile my kernel.<br>><br>> I have<br>> kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrma<br>> and<br>> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrma
<br>><br>> installed.<br>><br>> As I understand it, that should give me the kernel and the sources for the<br>> kernel, which reside in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.16-<br>> 1.2080.16.rrt.rhfc5.ccrma-smp-i686.<br>
><br>> I change to that directory. Backup '.config'. Invoke 'make xconfig',<br>> choose my options, save the new .config file.<br>><br>> Invoke 'make mrproper', which aborts with errors to do with infiniband. I
<br>> don't understand why this is happening. I disabled infiniband in the<br>> configuration step, should that not be enough?<br>><br>> - martin<br><br>Martin. I think if you want to re-compile the kernel you will need the
<br>sources. <a href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/srpms/">http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/all/linux/srpms/</a><br><br>This is for the website. Not for DL via Yum, which isn't available. "srpms"
<br>may be in capitals, I havn't made it very clear in my book.<br><br>Nigel.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PlanetCCRMA mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PlanetCCRMA@ccrma.stanford.edu">PlanetCCRMA@ccrma.stanford.edu
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