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[Cleary_Mike@xxxxxxx]

OK, so how does one get either the src rpm's or 
the tar files to build?  I couldn't get either to build
on my box (stock 7.3 install, 2.4.10).

TIA,

Mike
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Mark Hounschell [mailto:markh@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:	Friday, November 30, 2001 5:57 PM
To:	suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [SLE] New NVIDIA drivers

Keith Winston wrote:
> 
> Well, damn.  I just got this from the kernel README:
> 
> "Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area!

You can safely ignore anything that says not to put a link from
/usr/src/linux to
/usr/src/linux-"rev". If you download a vanilla kernel from kernel.org and
untar it
it will go into linux. It's just using this link in compiling kernel modules
etc. that
is not going to work any more. The link is safe to be there. There is
NOTHING wrong
with having the link there. I beleive the README file has a typo in it. It
should be
stating not to use /usr/include/linux for kernel stuff, not that there
should not be
a link from /usr/src/linux to you real kernel sources. Althouh the link is
no longer
needed it can still be used as a short cut to cd to the kernel sources dir.

> This area has a (usually
>  incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library
> header files.  They should match the library, and not get messed
> up by whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be."
> 
> So, you're right.  Also, the build link was right where you said
> pointing to the actual kernel source.  Just when I think I know
> what's going on...
> 
> --- Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think that anyone said that there shouldn't be a link
> > there, just that
> > that link is no longer used for a link into the kernel when
> > compiling kernel stuff.
> > The link at /lib/modules/'uname -r'/build is now used. If you
> > try to use the other
> > one you will get a nasty message telling you that you are
> > doing it wrong along with
> > instructions on how to do it right. /usr/include/linux is the
> > glibc peoples skeleton
> > kernel headers for user apps only. Also the /usr/include/asm
> > is the same way now.
> >

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