[CLUE-Tech] Building Kernel w/Debian

[Matt Gushee]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:23:48AM -0600, Randy Arabie wrote:

> I'm running into erros w/ the make xconfig command.  I get this error:
> 
> bash-2.05a$ make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/linux/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c
> tkparse.c:48: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> tkparse.c:49: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
> tkparse.c:50: string.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux/kernel-source-2.4.18/scripts'
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
> bash-2.05a$ 
> 
> It looks to me like the make is trying to build the tk based xconfig app, but can't find
> some of the headers it needs.  I've got tk8.3 & tk8.3-dev isntalled.  Does anyone know 
> where would these other headers be or what package they belong to?

Wow. Missing stdio.h, stdlib.h, and string.h? Damn near every C program
includes them. Do you have libc6-dev installed?

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