[wplug] compiling RH 9 kernel

[Rick Smith]

Nevermind ..
More googling about found
http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/rpm-list/2003-April/003734.html
which had: 

  This has been a problem with RH kernel sine 7.x some time..
  you are getting some weird error about some random hex number or
  something. make mrproper will fix that up for you.

-- Rick

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 12:28:38PM -0400, Rick Smith wrote:
> Has anyone compiled RH 9 using kernel-source rpm?
> I'm playing around with it on a machine, though don't have access
> to that machine right now.
> I loaded that RPM, then..
> cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 
> cp configs/<whatever the plain i386 one is>.config .config
> make menuconfig
> # read through things, but don't change anything
> make dep
> make bzImage
> make modules
> 
> And the modules compile fails because include/linux/rhconfig.h isn't
> getting included.  In poking around, this is a file that is not part of
> the normal kernel, but something RedHat added.  It is included in
> include/linux/version.h, which is included in some of the module files. 
> I hacked the failing file so it included this, and it compiled, but the
> next one failed for the same reason.  Seems odd that I'm compiling a RH
> kernel with a RH config file on a RH system and it isn't working.  While
> I can get it to work, I'm thinking that I must be missing something.  I
> googled about and looked at RH site for kernel compiling and found a
> bunch of info, but none concerning this. 
> 
> So before I dump more info about the details here, I'd like to hear
> if anyone has compiled a kernel using the RH 9 modified sources.
> 
> -- Rick
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