Re: POM woes

[Nox <pheusion@snet.net>]

Hold on:

# export KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8

3). # cd /usr/src/linux/
    # make dep

see the difference?

you set env for 2.4.20-8
but cd into /usr/src/linux/

Is this a typo?
if not thats most likely the cause

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:48, Stack Buffer wrote:
> Greetings Nox,
> Thank u very much for the advice.
> I recently tried checking out what this POM stuff was
> all about and to see if I could apply any patches.
> Well I did according to what the Netfilter Extension
> HOWTO instructed, namely:
> 
> 1). Get the latest CVS tree, by doing (taken from
> HOWTO)..
> 
> # cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.netfilter.org:/cvspublic
> login
> 
> (When it asks you for a password type `cvs').
> 
> # cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.netfilter.org:/cvspublic
> co netfilter/userspace netfilter/patch-o-matic
> 
> 2). Second I did the following to state my kernel src
> dir..
> 
> # export KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8
> 
> 3). # cd /usr/src/linux/
>     # make dep
> 
> 4)# ./runme extra
> 
> Actually my problem is at stage 4, the output says..
> 
> Do you want to apply this patch [N/y/t/f/a/r/b/w/q/?]
> y
> Testing patch submitted/03_2.4.21.patch...
> Failed to patch copy of /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/
> TEST FAILED: patch NOT applied.
> 
> [Press enter to continue]....
> 
>  As u can see somethng is wrong, even worse when press
> return it just keeps cycling thru the same above entry
> :( . Is the patch number somehow related to my kernel
> version number??. What can I do from here
> I would really appreciate any help on the above.
> Thanking u for ur time
> Stack..
> 
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