Where in the RHEL is my version.h file?

[Craig White]

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