[wellylug] missing autoconf.h

Nick Jensen nickspoon at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 12:55:30 NZDT 2004


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:51:46 +1300, Nigel Roberts <nigel at nobiscuit.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 at 12:44:15 +1300, Nick Jensen wrote:
> 
> > > The first thing you must do is install the kernel source.
> >
> > I don't think the kernel source includes the headers (or not always anyway)
> 
> Yes, it does. Sources, by their very nature, need to include headers
> so that they can be compiled. Having them seperate would be pointless
> from a kernel maintainers point of view. Distributions tend to
> seperate them out so that their users don't need to have a full copy
> of the sources to compile third party drivers.

Makes perfect sense, I just didn't have my kernel-headers installed
after installing the source - but then I had a few issues installing
the source anyway, so it may not have installed properly. Thanks

  Nick




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