Re: How to reinstall kernel source tree

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>]

Hong Hsu <honghsu@bellatlantic.net> writes:

> On athlon XP machine,  I tried to reinstall Redhat Linux kernel
> 2.4.18-3
> source tree. but didn't got luck.  Here is what I did:
> #rpm -ivh  --force  kernel-2.4.18-3.src.rpm
> #rpm -qi   kernel-2.4.18-3
> The Install date was 12/16/2002.  It didn't updated!
>
> #cd   /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3
> #cp  configs/kernel-2.4.18-3-athlon.config  ../.config

make oldconfig

> #make  dep
>
> It didn't seems do anything:
> [root@puma linux-2.4.18-3]# make dep
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
> scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/arch/i386/boot'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** No rule to make target `include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by
> `include/linux/version.h'.  Stop.
> [root@puma linux-2.4.18-3]#
>
> After that I tried to compile a driver and couldn't find modversions.h
> and autoconf.h,  what I am missing here in order to successful
> reinstall kernel source tree.   Your help will be appreciated,

I believe these files will be generated when you run "make oldconfig",
assuming you don't want to modify the configuration with "make
menuconfig" or something.

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