Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Build log

[James J. R. <jjr...@ya...>]

--- Matt Hollingsworth <ma...@ad...> wrote:
> I cd to the linuxwacom folder and run this:
> 
> # ./configure --enable-wacom --with-kernel=/usr/

You do not want to do this.

There are *two* sets of kernel header files. One is in
/usr/include/linux. AFAIK, those are for  compiling
regular applications, and trying to compile kernel
modules against them will work very badly. The other
set of kernel header files comes with the kernel
source itself. These files are generally in
/usr/src/linux-2.4.something-or-other/include/linux.
Those are the header files against which kernel
modules are to be compiled. If you install the
kernel-source RPM for Red Hat 8.0, you will get those
kernel files in the right place. Don't install the
kernel-source RPM, yet, however. Read on.

> As for the header files, I found them.  They were in
> /usr/src, all
> laying there loose not in an include folder. 

Looks like some header files were misplaced. IIRC, in
a standard-issue Red Hat 8.0 install, header files
would not be lying loose in /usr/src. You might want
to find out how those files got there.

> I did
> another ./configure
> and saw that it was looking in
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux which seemed
> slightly strange.

That's not strange at all. That's where the kernel
header files you want *should* be.

> But, I did a mkdir and made the
> include directory
> with a linux directory inside of that and then used
> a * wilcard to move
> all .h files from /usr/src to
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux then ran
> ./configure again without giving it the path to the
> kernel, and this
> worked fine.  Other than the build not working fine
> and there not
> actually being a wacom.o, that is.

I'm not surprised that didn't work. Okay, time for
some clean-up.

First, run "rpm -q kernel-source". That will tell you
whether the kernel-source RPM is installed. If it is,
*uninstall* it with "rpm -e kernel-source". The
kernel-source RPM will need to be installed (or
reinstalled) but not yet.

Next, cd to /usr/src. Delete the linux/ directory with
"rm -rf". If there are any directories like it, such
as linux-2.4/ or linux-2.4.something-or-other/, delete
those, too. You shouldn't need to delete anything
more.

Now get the kernel-source RPM. It should be on one of
your Red Hat CDs. Alternatively, you can get it from
<http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/8.0/i386/kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.html>.
Install it with "rpm -Uvh
/path/to/kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm".

At this point, you should be able to run "./configure
--enable-wacom" and have it Just Work(TM). Let us know
if you have further problems.


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