Dear list,
how can I control the contens of a self made kernel_headers package?
I have a Debian sarge box (i386) running vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-k7 from the official kernel packages. The related installed debs:
kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-k7 kernel-headers-2.6.8-2 kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
I don't want to have a kernel-source package installed on my system. Now I want to install VMware Workstation, which needs to compile modules for the running kernel. The VMware install tool asks me for the location of the include directory and I answer: /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-k7/include/
Everything runs very well. VMware compiles and runs perfectly.
Now I want to make customized kernel packages. I install the package kernel-source-2.6.8, unpack the source, configure the kernel and run:
make-kpkg --append-to-version -jexss-k7 --revision 1.0 kernel_image kernel_headers
This gives me two packages:
kernel-image-2.6.8-jexss-k7_1.0_i386.deb kernel-headers-2.6.8-jexss-k7_1.0_i386.deb
I install the new kernel and reboot into this one. Now I want to compile the Vmware modules for that kernel. The VMware install tool asks me for the location of the include directory and I answer:
include/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-jexss-k7/include
Unfortunately, the modules don't compile:
... make[2]: scripts/Makefile.build: No such file or directory make[2]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/Makefile.build'. Stop. ... (and similar error messages)
I see that the original kernel-headers package from Debian has a link "scripts" which points to ../kernel-headers-2.6.8-2/scripts. This one points then to ../kernel-kbuild-2.6-3/scripts and there is the missing Makefile.build file.
Apparently the scripts/ directory of the kernel source is included in the kernel-kbuild package and has links to it in the kernel-headers package. But the links are missing in my package.
How do I include the corresponding links into my personal kernel-headers package?
Thank you very much, Jan.
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Jan Exß http://jan.exss.de/
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