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Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Nov 8 11:06:29 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 07 November 2006 23:04, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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.
> 

OK - done that, but still

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686'
  CC [M]  /home/anne/Downloads/gspcav1-20060925/gspca_core.o
/home/anne/Downloads/gspcav1-20060925/gspca_core.c:36:26: error: 
linux/config.h: No such file or directory

I've built things in the past and never got this stuck.  Am I still missing 
some package/conf or is it just a brain-fart?

Anne
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