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>Error starting recompiling process?</H3>
<p><strong>From darod on Fri, 05 Mar 1999
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<P><STRONG>
I get an error when I try to recompile the kernel. Actually, I
get the error before I even get into the recompiling process.
Here it is:
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When I try to run "<tt>make menuconfig</tt>" I get the errors ( I've
included a screenshot of what errors show up) in question. I'm a
newbee pretty much. I've had Linux on my machine for about 2
months. I've recompiled before but, I was using the "workstation"
option in Mandrake. I am now using the latest version of Mandrake
with the latest version of <A HREF="http://www.kde.org/">KDE</A>.
I chose the "custom" option for
install this last time and now I'm running into these problems. I
talked to several people about this and they have advised me to
install these files;
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kernel headers (I knew about this one)
<br>kernel source (I knew about this one too)
<br><tt>gcc</tt> (I didn't know about this one, but I loaded it and it
still gives me the errors)
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Headers just the portions of the kernel that some other
programs need to know to run compile and run under it.
So, if you install just the headers you can't compile
a new kernel --- but you can compile various programs
that need to refer to kernel function prototypes and
defined values (constants).
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The sources are needed to compile a new kernel, of course.
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<tt>gcc</tt> is the compiler (GNU C compiler). It's the tool you use
to compile <EM>anything</EM> on a typical Linux system. There are
also some derivative alternative compilers like egcs
available.
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I need help with this, I hope you can help me. I want to
recompile the kernel so that I can setup my iomega zip drive.
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Looking at your screenshot I see errors in compiling
<tt>lxdialog</tt> (the Linux kernel "dialog" utility which is
what <tt>menuconfig</tt> uses to display dialog boxes, with
menus etc).
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These errors are from the compiler's inability to find
various header files. This is almost certainly due to a
problem with your installation.
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On a properly configured system you should have
a couple of symlinks from <TT>/usr/include</TT> to directories
under <TT>/usr/src/linux.</TT> On my system these look like:
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 23 16:39 /usr/include/asm
-> /usr/src/linux/include/asm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 23 16:39 /usr/include/linux
-> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 23 16:39 /usr/include/scsi
-> /usr/src/linux/include/scsi
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Once these sylinks are in place (and there's a symlink
from <TT>/usr/src/linux</TT> to the actual location of your kernel
sources) you should be able to build your new kernel and
other software properly. (In your situation I'd expect
that almost nothing would compile --- those symlinks are
used by alot of software).
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Thanks in advance,
Darrin Rodriguez
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<p><strong>From darod on Sun, 07 Mar 1999
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<P><STRONG>Ok,
</STRONG></P>
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So your telling me that you think I probably won't be able to
compile anything with the way things are now on my machine
configuration, right? Well, what can I do short of installing the
OS again? I don't want to loose all the tweaking I've done
already if possible! What can I do with this thing?
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Darrin
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What I was trying to say is:
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MAKE THE SYMLINKS
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... and:
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MAKE SURE THE SYMLINKS ARE RIGHT
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I realize that my long description of what these symlinks
are and why you need them didn't actually spell that out in
simple, bold terms like this --- but that's what I meant.
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