[ef2b63b] | 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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[1987d72] | 3 | <sect2>
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[a20338e] | 4 | <title>Installation of the kernel headers</title>
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[1987d72] | 5 |
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[bed61bb] | 6 | <para>We won't be compiling a new kernel yet -- we'll do that when we have
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| 7 | finished the installation of all the packages. But as some packages need the
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[ef2b63b] | 8 | kernel header files, we're going to unpack the kernel archive now, set it up
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| 9 | and copy the header files so they can be found by these packages.</para>
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[1987d72] | 10 |
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[14d5c7f1] | 11 | <para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory
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| 12 | are not owned by root. Whenever you unpack a package as user root (like we
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| 13 | do here inside chroot), the files end up having the user and group ID's of
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| 14 | whatever they were on the packager's computer. This is usually not a
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| 15 | problem for any other package you install because you remove the source
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| 16 | tree after the installation. But the Linux kernel source tree is often kept
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[ef2b63b] | 17 | around for a long time, so there's a chance that whatever userid was used will
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| 18 | be assigned to somebody on your machine and that person would have write
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[14d5c7f1] | 19 | access to the kernel source.</para>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>In light of this, you might want to run <userinput>chown
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[ef2b63b] | 22 | 0.0</userinput> on the <filename>linux-&kernel-version;</filename> directory
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| 23 | to ensure all files are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>Kernel header installation requires the <emphasis>pwd</emphasis> program.
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| 26 | In the kernel source, the path to the pwd program is hard-wired as /bin/pwd.
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| 27 | Create a symlink to account for that:</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/pwd /bin/pwd &&</userinput></screen></para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para>Prepare for header installation:</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para><screen><userinput>make mrproper</userinput></screen></para>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>This ensures that the kernel tree is absolutely clean. The kernel team
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| 36 | recommends that this command be issued prior to <emphasis>each</emphasis> kernel
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| 37 | compilation. You shouldn't rely on the source tree being clean after
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| 38 | untarring.</para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>Create the <filename>include/linux/version.h</filename> file:</para>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <para><screen><userinput>make include/linux/version.h</userinput></screen></para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Create the platform-specific <filename>include/asm</filename>
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| 45 | symlink:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <para><screen><userinput>make symlinks</userinput></screen></para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>Install the platform specific-header files:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <para><screen><userinput>cp -HR include/asm /usr/include &&
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| 52 | cp -R include/asm-generic /usr/include</userinput></screen></para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <para>Install the cross-platform kernel header files:</para>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <para><screen><userinput>cp -R include/linux /usr/include</userinput></screen></para>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <para>There are a few kernel header files which make use of the
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| 59 | <filename>autoconf.h</filename> header file. Since we do not yet configure the
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| 60 | kernel, we need to create this file ourselves in order to avoid compilation
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| 61 | failures. Create an empty autoconf.h file:</para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <para><screen><userinput>touch /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h</userinput></screen></para>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>Since the <filename>/bin/pwd</filename> symlink we created earlier
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| 66 | was only temporary, it can now be removed:</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <para><screen><userinput>rm /bin/pwd</userinput></screen></para>
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[1987d72] | 69 |
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| 70 | </sect2>
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| 71 |
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