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

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.

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 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 basically me

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 ha

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 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 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 docum

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/lin

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 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 make it

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 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. > However, even my out

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 >

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 act

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 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. > >

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 f

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 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 long. > >> >

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 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. >>> >>> I a

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: >> >> h

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 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 ha

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 T

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

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: > > > > http://users.wowway.com/

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 gr

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 permiss

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#Unpac

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 tried

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 copy

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 a

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 a