Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (506 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:01:08PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Andreas Hanke wrote:
> > > Basil Chupin schrieb:
> > > > Anybody try executing 'make cloneconfig' in 10.2 GM?
> > > 10.2 GM is not factory, factory is what will become 10.3 next summer, so
> > > this is something for the [opensuse] list. But:
> > >
> > > > Here is the sorry result:
> > > >
> > > > dhcppc0:/usr/src/linux # make cloneconfig
> > > > /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 11: gcc: command
> > > > not found
> > > > /usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34/scripts/gcc-version.sh: line 12: gcc: command
> > > > not found
> > > >  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
> > > > /bin/sh: gcc: command not found
> > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 127
> > > > make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
> > > There result isn't sorry, it simply means that you don't have a compiler
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > The command
> > >
> > > /sbin/yast2 --install gcc
> > >
> > > will install a compiler for you.
> > >
> > > There's also a lot of documentation collected in various wikis, with the
> > > most important and most often repeated information being that you need
> > > kernel-source AND make AND gcc in order to build an external module.
> > For 'years' I have been compiling the nVidia driver and therefore have 
> > always installed the kernel-source. But I do not recall ever having to 
> > install make or gcc. When did they stop being a default installation?
>
> For 2 releases at least.
>  
> Ciao, Marcus

How then....?

Oh, I know. This is the first time I did not select the (whole) Linux 
Kernel Development 'pattern' when installing 10.2 and chose only the 
kernel-source.

It's all these little unexpected surprises in Suse which always brighten 
my otherwise dreary day..... :-) .

Cheers.


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