[CentOS] Building Custom Kernel - CentOS 4.4

Mon Jun 29 09:38:11 UTC 2009
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

Kurian Thayil wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am having issue when trying to build a custom kernel in CentOS 4.4.
> Current Kernel Version is 2.6.9-42.ELsmp and the server is HP Proliant DL380
> G3. I downloaded the source rpm and then installed it. Gave the command,
> rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec. But it
> throws me an error after patch operations. The following is the error.
> 
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i586-smp.config' ->
> `./kernel-2.6.9-i586-smp.config'
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i586.config' ->
> `./kernel-2.6.9-i586.config'
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686-hugemem.config' ->
> `./kernel-2.6.9-i686-hugemem.config'
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config' ->
> `./kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config'
> `/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/kernel-2.6.9-i686.config' ->
> `./kernel-2.6.9-i686.config'
> + for i in '*.config'
> + mv kernel-2.6.9-i586-smp.config .config
> ++ echo kernel-2.6.9-i586-smp.config
> ++ cut -d- -f3
> ++ cut -d. -f1
> ++ sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/s390x/s390/ -e s/ppc64.series/ppc64/
> + make ARCH=i386 nonint_oldconfig
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1

Looks like you don't have cpp, the C preprocessor, installed.

Try 'yum install cpp'.