Re: [CentOS] missing from Centos51 src tree: ".../drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile"

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:54 PM, snowcrash+centos schneecrash+centos@gmail.com wrote:

   yum install kernel-devel kernel-xen-devel

and usual,

Oh, we're going off instinct here.. this might get ugly...

   ln -s /usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -m` /usr/src/linux
   cd /usr/src/linux
   cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
   make oldconfig
   make menuconfig
   ...

next,

   make rpm

HOUSTON, We have a problem.

It's probably worth mentioning here, that this won't work in any recent (Centos 4 or 5) release, because kernel-*-devel packages don't contain any source files. They contain the headers needed to link a module against the kernel, and that's about it.

If you want to rebuild the kernel, you're going to have to extract the source from the kernel src.rpm, and follow the instructions on the wiki.