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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problem compiling 2.6.16.1
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 00:43:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060406224339.GC7118@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30604060221i1d49cf2brd5fd786b6ce75822@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:21:46AM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

> Hi all,
> a friend of mine got this error compiling 2.6.16.1 and we don't know
> what's wrong:
> 
> uno:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.1#   make O=/home/dan/build/kernel menuconfig
>  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>...
> /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory
>...
> Any hint?

Your friend has gcc installed, but not the kernel headers that should 
be provided by his distribution for usage with his libc (although they 
are similar, these are _not_ the headers of the kernel he is trying 
to compile).

> Paolo

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


      reply	other threads:[~2006-04-06 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-06  9:21 problem compiling 2.6.16.1 Paolo Ciarrocchi
2006-04-06 22:43 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]

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