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'.