>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 30 09:49:58 1997 >Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:42:11 -0400 (EDT) >From: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> >Subject: confusion regarding kernel-source and ibcs source > >Recently, I grabbed the newest ibcs source (ibcs_970513-2) and compiled it >sucessfully on my machine (running hamm and kernel 2.0.29). I then >proceeded to try the same thing on two other debian machines (running 1.3) >using the same source for ibcs. It choked because >/usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h was missing. I realized that I >did not install the kernel source on these machines and did so and tried >again. Still choked due to that missing file. So I decided to look at if >modversion.h was included in the kernel source. It isn't. Doing a search > >[Michael Meskes] You're right. A while ago we decided to use a versioned >kernel and versioned modules (at least I think so, since I did not maintain a >module back then) because that makes it easier to use one module for >different kernel releases. But it seems the kernel package does not create a >versioned kernel. It seems we're not on the same page right now. Ot course we >should be :-( > >using dpkg --search, I found out that file only exists in > >modutils: /usr/doc/modules/examples/Stacking/modversions.h > >So my question is, does kernel-package put that file into the source tree? >Or, more generally, how did it get into my source tree? Also, should there >be some documentation in the ibcs package warning of this? Cheers. > >[Michael Meskes] Right now you can only create the files (you also need the >modules subdir) by recompiling the kernel with MODULE_VERSION defined. >
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