Comments on: Step by Step tutorial howto compile kernel in Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

By: zgfrd

zgfrd — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:51:31 +0000

where:
….”error: zlib.h: No such file or directory”….

install zlib1g-dev package and make-kpkg again

regards,
zgfrd

By: Harry Andersen

Harry Andersen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:09:33 +0000

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roy/newkernel/linux-source-2.6.26′
/usr/bin/make ARCH=i386 \
-C Documentation/lguest
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roy/newkernel/linux-source-2.6.26/Documentation/lguest’
cc -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include lguest.c -lz -o lguest
lguest.c:34:18: error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [lguest] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roy/newkernel/linux-source-2.6.26/Documentation/lguest’
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2

By: pflamellas

pflamellas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:47:12 +0000

well I follow this howto and give a error:
make[1]: Entrando no diretório `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.6/Documentation/lguest’
cc -m32 -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include -I../../arch/x86/include -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE lguest.c -o lguest
lguest.c:21:25: error: sys/eventfd.h: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado
lguest.c: In function ‘create_thread’:
lguest.c:1021: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘eventfd’
make[1]: ** [lguest] Erro 1
make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/usr/src/linux-2.6.31.6/Documentation/lguest’
make: ** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Erro 2

By: anon debianite

anon debianite — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:26:06 +0000

@Rich Hartley: They’re not separate programs but features of make.

By: Rich Hartley

Rich Hartley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:08:33 +0000

great info, but where do we get gconfig or xconfig because it’s not in the repos.