On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Brian Ipsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > One quick question (whcih actually is giving me a lot of trouble
> > > building
> > > some other software). My RH 7.2 kernel is 2.4.18-19 - but the latest
> > > kernel-headers rpm package available is 2.4.9-34 - how come there is
> > > no update to 2.4.18-19 of this package too ??
> >
> > The kernel headers as necessary for building kernel modules, for
> > instance, can be found in the kernel-source binary rpm for your
> > kernel version. On the other hand, the headers in the kernel-headers
> > package (the glibc-kernheaders package for newer versions of Red Hat
> > Linux) are for compiling glibc and other apps/libs which depend on
> > the kernel API.
>
> Okay, but running with kernel 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp and having installed
> kernel-headers-2.4.9-34
> on a 7.2 box - gives me, when compiling the ISC ipmi driver from Intel,
> an error-message when I try to do an insmod:
>
> insmod ./imb
> ./imb: kernel-module version mismatch
> ./imb was compiled for kernel version 2.4.9-34smp
> while this kernel is version 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp.
>
> The question is then where the 2.4.9-34smp originates from ?
>
Try
# rpm -q --qf="%{SOURCERPM}\n" kernel
You can list all the available tags with --querytags.
Apparenty kernel-2.4.9-34.src.rpm, but need to have
kernel-source-2.4.9-34.%{arch}.rpm installed. The
%{arch} is the target architecture kernel was built.
So you first install kernel-source package, then usually
you enter to created /usr/src/kernel-%{version}-%{release}
directory, next copy the /boot/config-%{version}-%{release}
to /usr/src/kernel-%{version}-%{release}/.config and
run "make dep".
After that you are able to start building the modules,
and this is all shows exactly the unnecessary complexity
you hit yourself too -- not very uncommon nowadays.
I'm not supprised you couldn't follow the conversation
we had on this very issue ... :/
HTH,
:-) riku
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