VMware with FC2T1

Ben Steeves bcs at metacon.ca
Wed Mar 10 13:24:34 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 05:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:29:22 -0400, Ben Steeves <bcs at metacon.ca> wrote:
> > vmware-config.pl keeps complaining about not being able to find
> > '/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-2.1.246/include/linux/version.h', which, indeed,
> > does not appear to exist.
> 
> if history is any guide, if you've done a serious clean of the kernel source
> tree (like with "make mrproper"), the include/linux/version.h file is removed.
> it's regenerated once you do any kind of "make ???config".
> 
> or you should just be able to do "make include/linux/version.h" to regenerate
> that file.

That's interesting.  With the 2.4 kernels, I could just install the
kernel-source package, run vmware-config.pl, and be off to the races.  

Is there any documentation outlining the differences between the
packaging methodologies/strategies used in the Fedora 2.4 kernel-source
packages vs. the 2.6 kernel-source packages?

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