On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 07:42 -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> >> I'm trying to install the ALSA driver package (yes, that one ...)
> >> under CentOS 4.2. Here's where I'm hung up:
> >>
> >> ./configure --with-cards=sb16 --with-sequencer=yes \
> >> --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL
> >>
> >> I get this message: checking for kernel version... The file
> >> /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL/include/linux/version.h does not exist.
> >> Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your
> >> distribution ...
> >>
> >> It speaks the truth. The file isn't there, and I think it should be.
> >>
> >> This was after a few attempts. I installed
> >> kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-11.EL and the directory
> >> /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-11.EL/include/linux is present, but the
> >> version.h file does not exist there.
> >
> > Pretty much a RH noob mistake. In older versions of RH it was part of
> > the kernel-devel package. Last I checked that got changed to be the
> > glibc-kernheaders package. Any rpm that says source in the name or is
> > type src.rpm is usually not what you want to install to solve a
> > dependency problem. You install source packages (those with source in
> > the name) if you intend to compile it from scratch in the usual methods
> > (e.g. ./configure && make && make install). You would use .src.rpm
> > files if you were going to rebuild a package from scratch for your
> > systems with maybe some customization (e.g. rpmbuild --rebuild
> > package.src.rpm).
> >
> >> A number of the header files in that directory do have includes for
> >> <linux/version.h> ... so I searched for any directory or link
> >> system-wide named "linux" that might satisfy linux/version.h. Struck
> >> out again.
> >>
> >> I searched the system for all the version.h files, thinking I could
> >> find one to link to, but they all look application specific except
> >> for /usr/include/linux/version.h. That is a strange looking file:
> >>
> >> #define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.20"
> >> #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132116
> >> #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
> >>
> >> The numbers here don't look right. And I'm on 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL #1
> >> according to uname -a.
> >>
> >> So ... I'd appreciate any ideas as to how to find (or create?) a
> >> version.h file to meet the needs of this ./configure script. I
> >> haven't yet tried hacking into the configure script itself, and hope
> >> to avoid that . . .
> >
> Thanks, Kevin. I think you are advising me to install glibc-kernheaders
> to get the headers to build these drivers. I'll try that tonight.
>
> I also assume that the rest of your paragraph was just talking about
> when I *would* want to install source, which doesn't apply to my
> problem right now. Right? This is a tarball install for the drivers,
> downloaded from ALSA; the normal rpm installs don't cover sb16.
>
> I installed kernel-sourcecode after seeing advice on a forum, which
> apparently solved this problem for somebody. Did that install the full
> source for the kernel? If so, can I uninstall kernel-sourcecode without
> breaking anything? I'm short on disk space.
----
actually - no it doesn't
you will undoubtedly find it in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and can find it
there.
I'm not entirely certain that installing the glibc-kernheaders is gonna
give you what you want but it is enough to compile kernel modules.
Just out of curiosity...does the soundblaster hardware show up when you
do 'lspci -v' ?
Craig
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