If I can squeeze a message between the discussions on security (:-)) I have been trying to compile a kernel on an x86_64 box under CentOS4.1 and now 4.2.
The problem is that neither make xconfig or make gconfig work:
make gconfig * * Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that * the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed... * You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0. * make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/.tmp_gtkcheck] Error 1 make: *** [gconfig] Error 2
and a similar message for xconfig:
make xconfig HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/qconf] Error 1 make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
Yet I have the following libraries installed:
compat-glibc.i386 1:2.3.2-95.30 installed compat-glibc.x86_64 1:2.3.2-95.30 installed compat-glibc-headers.x86_64 1:2.3.2-95.30 installed glibc.i686 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-common.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-devel.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-devel.i386 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-headers.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed glibc-kernheaders.x86_64 2.4-9.1.98.EL installed glibc-utils.x86_64 2.3.4-2.13 installed gtk+.i386 1:1.2.10-33 installed gtk+.x86_64 1:1.2.10-33.centos4 installed gtk+-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-33.centos4 installed gtk-engines.i386 1:0.12-6.el4 installed gtk-engines.x86_64 1:0.12-6.el4 installed gtk2.x86_64 2.4.13-18 installed gtk2.i386 2.4.13-18 installed gtk2-devel.x86_64 2.4.13-18 installed gtk2-engines.x86_64 2.2.0-7.el4 installed gtk2-engines.i386 2.2.0-7.el4 installed libglade2.i386 2.4.0-5 installed libglade2.x86_64 2.4.0-5 installed pygtk2.x86_64 2.4.0-1 installed pygtk2-libglade.x86_64 2.4.0-1 installed
Since menuconfig is totally unusable, I am quite stuck. I have regularly compiled on an x86 box with virtually identical installation and I have compared the libraries but can't see what I have missed.
The kernel version is 2.6.14.3 which is the latest stable but this happens with older kernels. There have been suggestions of various patches to a makefile which I have tried but to no avail. So I think it may be a library issue.
So can anyone with an x86_64 box on which they have successfully compiled a kernel post me their output from:
yum list | egrep gtk|glibc|glade | grep installed
... or even the complete yum list (privately to save bandwidth!)
TIA
John
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