Shorten kernel install in chapter 05

[gerard@…]

the version.h can be created by: make include/linux/version.h

the asm symlink: make symlinks

Check to see if there's anything else that needs (most likely Glibc needs something)

[gerard@…]

a make dep still seems necessary to create the autoconf.h and modversions.h header files. I didn't see an easy way to do this nicely. Moving to lfs-dev for further discussion

[gerard@…]

Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:42:47 +0100 From: Matthias Benkmann <matthias@…> To: lfs-dev@… Subject: Re: Need some help with Bug #286

autoconf.h was created by make config at least until recently, modversions.h doesn't exist on my system, so it must be part of very recent kernels only. Anyway, autoconf.h does not contain information that an application could sensibly use and modversions.h doesn't either (especially since it didn't exist until recently). Both files have no meaning in /usr/include/linux because /usr/include/linux does not in any way correspond to the kernel being run and an application assuming this is broken. They may be needed because they are #included in some other headers so that their absence would cause compile errors but this can be solved by simply touching dummy files. So my suggestion would be to ignore these files or create dummy files with touch and see if it works.

MSB

[gerard@…]

"touch /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h" works to get lilo compiled. Still building the rest of the system to check if there are files that should be 'dummied' so to speak.

[gerard@…]

All seems to work fine.

CVS updated, let's see how long it takes before somebody reports a problem ;)

[markh@…]

works for me and there've been no reports of things breaking on lfs-dev so closing.