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[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:21 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 November 2006 20:24, Warren Sturm wrote:
> > That will probably be kernel-devel package.  However, on mine it points
> > to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-xen-i686
> > but i have
> > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686/ from the devel package.  So
> > there is some fun waiting when I try to compile new kernel modules.
> >
> > > ls -al /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Nov  1
> > > 12:15 /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build ->
> > > ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586
> > >
> And this still lists in a flashing red.  I must be missing something obvious.  
> The 'build' file is definitely there.
I usually delete that link... no need for all the ../../../ stuff.
then I relink:
ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586 build
which will fix the link/filename 'source' which points to 'build'.
You are using i586 and not i686? Plenty of strangeness going around. I'm
gonna reboot to see if my glibc was the culprit of some of my problems.
Ric
  
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