Re: Compiling kernel 2.6.23.1 HELP

Willy Tarreau
2007-10-13T17:31:42Z

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:16:08PM +0530, animesh saxena wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a kernel newbie, so need some help trying to compile it.
> I have fedora 7 installed.
>
> While compiling it, I get errors as follows.....
>
> HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:107:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or
> directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:108:22: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or
> directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:109:22: error: sys/mman.h: No such file or
> directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:110:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or
> directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:111:19: error: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:112:20: error: string.h: No such file or
> directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:113:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or
> directory
> scripts/basic/fixdep.c:114:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory

It seems to me that you do not have glibc-devel or any other name it
can have on your distro. It's very likely that after that you will be
missing a few other development packages, but you'll quickly find them
one at a time.

(...)
> On many forums it said I need to have 2.4 kernel headers. I can't
> understand why is it so? Am I missing something?

Possibly that you will also need some random kernel-header-xxxx package,
I don't know how it's packaged. Install the libc headers first to see.

> I used git for getting the latest kernel.
>
> git-clone
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

If you're a newbie, you're not encouraged to try building GIT kernels.
They are *very* likely to break during build with nasty errors. You'd
better get the official releases in tar.bz2 form which are know to build
and work for most people.

> Is there something similar for getting kernel headers? Please help.

not to my knowledge.

Regards,
Willy