On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 01:50 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Robin Laing wrote: > > > I am fighting with that now on an FC7 machine. I need "sparse" > > installed to get the kernel to rebuild. Tried to install sparse and > > it won't. > > ??????. you don't need sparse to simply rebuild a kernel, at least > the last time i looked. you only need that if you want to run extra > heavy-duty checking on the source tree. and, in any event, it should > be as simple as "yum install sparse", which worked just fine for me. > > what error message did you get when trying that install? If you used the kernel source RPM, you need sparse. I can't recall which command was unhappy, but it was either the "rpmbuild" or the "make xconfig". I was a bit shocked when it happened to me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "Yeah, but you're taking the universe out of context." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
