[CLUE-Tech] Building Kernel w/Debian

[Randy Arabie]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Matt Gushee wrote:

> 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?
 
I recon I don't...

potter:~# dpkg -s libc6-dev
Package: libc6-dev
Status: install ok not-installed
Priority: standard
Section: devel 

It seems to me that should be a dependancy of kernel-package.

I thought standard IO and string parsing were pretty fundemental functions in most C 
programs ;)

Thanks.  Off to apt-get libc6-dev
-- 
Allons Rouler!
        
Randy