William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >>>After messing with that for days, patches and all. I decided to give the >>>kernel-devel rpms a go. So I downloaded >>> >>>kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm >>>kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.x86_64.rpm >> >>These are only the kernel headers. They won't help you. > > > You keep saying that, but they do contain a full source. I made a kernel > with this one kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm. As offered on IRC, I > can do each command again, and pastebin the output. You are mistaken. See for yourself: [sandeen at stout tmp]$ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm --14:34:22-- http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm => `kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm' Length: 3,778,931 (3.6M) [application/x-rpm] 100%[=========================================================================================>] 3,778,931 485.99K/s ETA 00:00 14:34:29 (549.58 KB/s) - `kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm' saved [3778931/3778931] [sandeen at stout tmp]$ rpm -qpl kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm | grep \\.c$ warning: kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.EL.i686.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821 /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/basic/docproc.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/basic/fixdep.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/basic/split-include.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/bin2c.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/binoffset.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/conmakehash.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/genksyms/keywords.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/genksyms/lex.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/genksyms/parse.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kallsyms.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/conf.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/expr.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/images.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/menu.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/inputbox.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/menubox.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/msgbox.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/textbox.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/util.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/lxdialog/yesno.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/mod/empty.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/mod/file2alias.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/mod/modpost.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/mod/sumversion.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/modsign/mod-extract.c /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-22.EL-i686/scripts/pnmtologo.c [sandeen at stout tmp]$ That is not a full linux kernel, I'm sorry. You'll need a bit more source code. About 8000 more C files or so.... -Eric