[OpenAFS-devel] what's "enable-redhat-buildsys" all about?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:08:43AM -0400, Christopher Allen Wing wrote:
> > This won't work anymore anyway -- the headers must be from
> > /lib/modules/[version]/build/.
> This is just a symlink to:
> 	/usr/src/linux-some.particular.version
> And that's what I meant by '/usr/src/linux', sorry for being unclear.

Actually, not in 2.6 / Fedora Core 2. The new kernel build system requires
headers that match the specific kernel exactly, and so the new kernel
packages include them. You don't even need the kernel-sourcecode package to
build an external module anymore.

> On Red Hat systems up to Fedora Core 1 (I'm not sure about FC2), you need
> to look at:
[snip]

Yeah, all of that is gone with 2.6, which is all I'm interested in right
now. Thank you very much for the clear explanation, though.


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