Files not linking/replacing.

Files not linking/replacing.

[Patrick Shirkey]

Hi.

I hope this is the correct place to report to.

I have installed kernel 2.4.3 but my system is having a few problems
compiling things. Not all software is having problems it just seems to
be the most important ones. like mozilla or alsa-driver, I would like to
try others to test this but it's kind of frustrating and time consuming.

I installed the kernel in /usr/local/src because the install file says
not to do it in /usr/src anymore because of kernel header dependencies.

The system is booting and obviously I can use the net but the main
problem seems toi be that a lot of important files have not benn updated
or relinked to the right dir.

I installed the new kernel onto Mandrake 7.0 which ships with 2.2.14.

I'm using a PIII
and have verified that my software is upto the minimal requirements
according to the /documentation/changes file. All except mkinitrd which
I can't install becuse I have an old version of rpm and cannot find the
tar.gz file on the net.

An example of what my system is doing:

I compile the latest stable mozilla.
First off it complains that /usr/include/bits/errno.h doesn't point to
the right place.
So I remove it and link /usr/local/src/linux/include/asm/errno.h to
/usr/include/bits/errno.h and recompile.
It gets past that point then complains about /usr/include/bits/socket.h
so I repeat the process.

The futility of doing this occurs to me. So I write in to this list in
the hope that someone may know what I have done wrong or can offer me
some help to debug.

Any ideas?

Patrick Shirkey.

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Re: Files not linking/replacing.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com> writes:

> Hi.
> 
> I hope this is the correct place to report to.
> 
> I have installed kernel 2.4.3 but my system is having a few problems
> compiling things. Not all software is having problems it just seems to
> be the most important ones. like mozilla or alsa-driver, I would like to
> try others to test this but it's kind of frustrating and time consuming.
> 
> I installed the kernel in /usr/local/src because the install file says
> not to do it in /usr/src anymore because of kernel header dependencies.
> 
> The system is booting and obviously I can use the net but the main
> problem seems toi be that a lot of important files have not benn updated
> or relinked to the right dir.
> 
> I installed the new kernel onto Mandrake 7.0 which ships with 2.2.14.
> 
> I'm using a PIII
> and have verified that my software is upto the minimal requirements
> according to the /documentation/changes file. All except mkinitrd which
> I can't install becuse I have an old version of rpm and cannot find the
> tar.gz file on the net.
> 
> An example of what my system is doing:
> 
> I compile the latest stable mozilla.
> First off it complains that /usr/include/bits/errno.h doesn't point to
> the right place.
> So I remove it and link /usr/local/src/linux/include/asm/errno.h to
> /usr/include/bits/errno.h and recompile.
> It gets past that point then complains about /usr/include/bits/socket.h
> so I repeat the process.
> 
> The futility of doing this occurs to me. So I write in to this list in
> the hope that someone may know what I have done wrong or can offer me
> some help to debug.
> 
> Any ideas?

Normally /usr/src/linux on a redhat system contains a kernel with a
known good set of kernel headers.  /usr/include/linux and 
/usr/include/asm are symlinks that point into the known good kernel
headers.  It looks like you removed your known good 2.2.14 known good
kernel headers, or the symlinks to them.

Eric

Re: Files not linking/replacing.

[Jeff Garzik]

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> Normally /usr/src/linux on a redhat system contains a kernel with a
> known good set of kernel headers.  /usr/include/linux and
> /usr/include/asm are symlinks that point into the known good kernel
> headers.  It looks like you removed your known good 2.2.14 known good
> kernel headers, or the symlinks to them.

Modern glibc systems have their own copies of headers for
/usr/include/{asm,linux}, and those locations should not be pointing to
kernel space...

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Re: Files not linking/replacing.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> "Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> > Normally /usr/src/linux on a redhat system contains a kernel with a
> > known good set of kernel headers.  /usr/include/linux and
> > /usr/include/asm are symlinks that point into the known good kernel
> > headers.  It looks like you removed your known good 2.2.14 known good
> > kernel headers, or the symlinks to them.
> 
> Modern glibc systems have their own copies of headers for
> /usr/include/{asm,linux}, and those locations should not be pointing to
> kernel space...

I keep thinking that until I look at what has actually been installed.
The quickest way I know to confuse a compile is: rm /usr/src/linux.

Eric