Re: [SSI-devel] build error:`DEVFSD_NOTIFY_DELETE' undeclared here

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

Hi Valery,

I finally made some time to implement these suggestions. If you like, 
you can take a look at the latest docs/devel/INSTALL.cvs on the 
OPENSSI-FC branch to see what I've done.

Thanks,

Brian


Valery A.Khamenya wrote:
> John Byrne wrote:
> 
>> Is your /usr/src/linux-2.4 pointing to a valid linux source tree?
> 
> 
> Oh, I see the problem:
> there are following lines in devel/INSTALL.cvs:
> 
> [quote]
> Also be sure that /usr/src/linux contains a kernel tree. This is needed for
> building the devfsd RPM. If necessary, create a symlink for /usr/src/linux:
>    # ln -s linux-2.4 /usr/src/linux
> [/quote]
> 
> but at this time point according to devel/INSTALL.cvs there is no
> directory "linux-2.4" still...
> 
> Few lines later we found:
> [quote]
> Extract the base kernel source:
>    # tar jxf srpms/linux-rh-2.4.18-18.tar.bz2
> [/quote]
> 
> but that produces "linux" subfolder  next to "ci", "openssi",  "srpms", 
> and not
> "linux-2.4". I guess one should set up "/usr/src/linux-2.4" as symbolic 
> link to this recently
> created "linux" subfolder. Right?
> 
> Anyway, it would be really _good_ idea to state this a bit more exact
> in devel/INSTALL.cvs
> 
> Now, the following
> 
> [quote]
> First build a cluster-tools RPM:
>    # cd ci
>    # make rpms
> [/quote]
> 
> runs OK.
> 
> But these lines
> [quote]
> Install the freshly built cluster-tools RPM. It is needed to build some
> of the other RPMs:
>    # RPMDIR=/usr/src/redhat/RPMS
>    # rpm -Uhv $RPMDIR/i386/cluster-tools-<latest version>.i386.rpm
> [/quote]
> 
> are screaming about conflicts with already installed tools.
> I skipped this with "rpm --force ..."
> (BTW, it would be good to put small note for this case in INSTALL.cvs too)
> 
> now i got my kernel is recompiled successfully :-)
> 
> My next remark is about:
> 
> [quote]
> Create a directory in your openssi directory called RPMS. Move your new 
> RPMs
> from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/* into openssi/RPMS. You can delete the 
> *-debuginfo-*
> RPMs. You can also delete e2fsprogs-devel, losetup and ntsysv, since no
> code is modified in these RPMs.
> [/quote]
> 
> 1. These lines probably imply that /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ contains only 
> rpms from
> openssi. Otherwize, one has to filter directory content to find openssi 
> rpm.
> 
> 2. Before proceeding to section 2 it would be nice to know,
> which "openssi/RPMS" is exactly meant?
> 
> Maybe something could be enhanced here...
> 
> Thank you for the help in advance,
> Valery A.Khamenya
> 
> 
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