SRPMS

Hi all,

 

Sorry to ask again, but I’m still having problems building the drivers for the e1000 card against the kernelR30;

 

The SRPMS don’t seem to want to allow rpmbuild to extract the sources.

 

I tried to install the gcc-3.4.6-3.endian6.i686 using

 

Rpmbuild –bp –target i686 gcc34.spec

 

And got the responseo:p>

 

Building target platforms: i686

Building for target i686

Error: Failed build dependencies:

           ; Binutils >= 2.15.92.0.2-18 is needed by gcc-3.4.6-2.endian6.i686

           ; Zlib-devel is needed by gcc-3.4.6-2.endian6.i686

           ; Texinfo is needed by gcc-3.4.6-2.endian6.i686

           ; Glibc-extras is needed by gcc-3.4.6-2.endian6.i686

 

 

So then I tried to build binutils…

 

Rpmbuild –bp –target i686 binutils.spec

 

And I got the responseo:p>

 

 

Building target platforms: i686

Building for target i686

Error: Failed build dependencies:

           ; Texinfo is needed by binutils-2.15.92.0.2-21.endian6.i686

 

 

I followed the build dependencies until I found something that actually would install – sharutils...

 

But even after I’d run the rpmbuild on sharutils, the next up the list in the dependency tree, ncurses, still gave this error

 

Building target platforms: i686

Building for target i686

Error: Failed build dependencies:

           ; Sharutils is needed by ncurses-5.4-14.endian.2.i686

 

 

What am I doing wrong?

Why don’t they recognise the dependencies?

 

Can I build the drivers on a different machine against the kernel sources?

Could I run it on a virtual machine with all the development tools available?

Could I build the drivers against a standard 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL kernel, or would that bring in a whole load of instability?

 

I’m sorry, I just don’t understand how it all hangs together…

 

Jx