[Kernel-handbook-general] building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

[Faheem Mitha]

Hi Ben,

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this:

> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml
>> --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530
>> +++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml	Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0530
>> @@ -176,7 +176,16 @@
>>   	    <tt><em>target</em>_<em>arch</em>_<em>featureset</em>_<em>flavour</em></tt>.
>>   	    Replace the <tt><em>featureset</em></tt> with
>>   	    <tt>none</tt> if you do not want any of the extra
>> -	    featuresets.
>> +	    featuresets. This command will build the linux image and
>> +	    kernel headers packages. You will also need
>
> Not 'will', but 'may'.

Why 'may'? You mean because it might fail?

>> +	    the <tt>linux-headers-<em>version</em>-common</tt> binary
>> +	    package, which can be built using the commands:
>> +	    <example>
>> +	      $ fakeroot debian/rules source
>> +	      $ fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_i386_none_real
>
> All space in <example> elements, except on the same lines as the
> starting and ending tags, is copied verbatim.  So you should not indent
> the lines between them.

Ok. I'll bear that in mind.

>> +            </example>
>> +            The target in this command has the general form of
>> +	    <tt><em>target</em>_<em>arch</em>_<em>featureset</em>_<em>real</em></tt>
>>   	  </p>
>>   	</sect1>
>>         </sect>
>
> I've applied this with changes as noted.

Thanks.

                           Regards, Faheem