Re: FC5: touble building nvidia-kmod from livna

Peter Reed wrote:
: Dean S. Messing wrote:
: > I'm having the devil of a time building (compiling) the nvidia-kmod
: > rpm for the kernel I'm running. (Why does this have to be so hard!!!)
: >
: > Here's what I've done.
: >
: > I downloaded
: >
: > nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.17_1.2174_FC5.src.rpm
: >
: > from livna. They don't have the module .rpm for the
: > 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp which I'm running right now so I figured I'd
: > "just" build the .rpm.
: >
: > I then "installed" the .src.rpm with `rpm -i'.
: >
: > Then I edited the .spec file, changing
: >
: > %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5}
: >
: >
: > to
: >
: > %{!?kversion: %define kversion 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5}
: >
: > at the beginning of the file.
: >
: > I then did
: >
: > rpmbuild -bb --target i686 nvidia-kmod.spec
: >
: > and get the following error messages:
: >
: > Building target platforms: i686
: > Building for target i686
: > error: Failed build dependencies:
: > kernel-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
: > kernel-xen0-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
: > kernel-kdump-devel-i686 = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by nvidia-kmod-1.0.8774-1.2.6.15_1.2054_FC5.i686
: >
: >
: > What I do have installed is:
: >
: > # `rpm -qa | fgrep kern'
: >
: > kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
: > kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
: > glibc-kernheaders-3.0-5.2
: >
: > What am I doing wrong?
: >
: > Dean
: >
: You need to install the kernel developer files for your kernel.
: yum install kernel-devel 2.6.15.2054_FC5
: Peter


Peter, could you explain why I need this package. From the above, I
already have "kernel-smp-devel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5" installed. (I'm
running the smp kernel).

Thanks.
Dean

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