[PlanetCCRMA] Recompiling the kernel 2.4.20-4.ll.acpi

[Patricio de la Cuadra]

> > I was hoping that the new kernel would solve the incompatibility I had
> > between the preemptible kernel and my modem driver, but no luck so far.
> > So I'm trying recompiling the kernel without the preemptible feature. 
> > I've been following the instruction you gave me for the previous version
> > but I got an error while compiling:
> > ======
> > ... COUPLE OF HOURS OF COMPILATION AND THEN:
> > 
> > Conflicts: ppp <= 2.3.15 pcmcia-cs <= 3.1.20 isdn4k-utils <= 3.0 mount <
> > 2.10r-5 nfs-utils < 0.3.1 cipe < 1.4.5 tux < 2.1.0 kudzu <= 0.92 e2fsprogs <
> > 1.22 initscripts < 6.41 dev < 3.2-7 iptables < 1.2.5-3
> > Obsoletes: kernel-modules kernel-sparc
> > Processing files: kernel-debuginfo-2.4.20-4.mine.acpi
> 
> Hmmm, let me guess, you are using redhat 9...
> 
> > error: Could not open %files file
> > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.20/debugfiles.list: No such file or directory
> > 
> > 
> > RPM build errors:
> >     Could not open %files file
> > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.4.20/debugfiles.list: No such file or directory
> > =======
> > Any idea of what can be wrong?
> 
> If you just upgraded to 9 or are using unsupported betas... well... 
> :-)
> 
> I have not tried compiling the kernel under 9, so far I'm using the
> kernel build under 8.0 and it is working fine (but I have not tried 
> to build additional kernel modules). 
> 
> I would try turning off the automatic "debuginfo" package generation
> that redhat 9 does. 
> 
> In /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros change %_enable_debug_packages to "0". 
> No, I have not tried this myself, I assume this is the way to turn that
> off...
> 

...mmm, I'm actually still running my old rh8.0 ;) I'll try your solution anyway,
Thanks
Pato