On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:09:03PM -0500, Michael A. Howard wrote: > Testing debian to see if it meets my requirements for installation on a few > servers to replace RedHat 6.1 & 6.2. > I am a very happy RedHat user except it installs too many items like X that > are unecessary for a server & nearly impossible to remove after the fact. > > After reading about the other distro's merits I downloaded debian potato > (this process needs to be be easier for new users, but I recognize that from > this point on if I need a new release I won't have to download an entire > distibution) and did the install which went OK, and was infact easier than > the comments I had read suggested it was going to be. > > I then wanted to compile a kernel to meet the machine requirements, and not > use modules. I must have built a million kernels (well a few hundred anyway) > over the years so this is NOT a new process to me. > > OK so the kernel sources are not installed by default, so I figure out > dselect and install the sources, unpack them & run make menuconfig > I get - curses.h: No such file or directory. I rerun dselect and check that > ncurses and ncurses-devel are installed and they are but this file is not > there? > > So I try to run make xconfig, this goes OK until I do make bzImage and now I > get .../sched.h:557 Internal compiler error in 'emit_move_insn_1 at expr > .c:2759 > > It appears to me that it is not possible to build a new kernel with a stable > release of debian. > > I don't have the time to debug broken software, I expected that basic stuff > like this would work without a problem on any release. > > Comments or suggestions welcome but it looks like I have wasted my time and > should have stayed with RH >
It really isn't necessary to troll on this list to get help. curses.h is in - libncurses5-dev Which you can find for yourself at - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages You can find where to get sched.h the same way. I would encourage you to read the documentation on how to compile a kernel the debian way at - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.html After you learn how to do that, you can reflect on how many key strokes you wasted compiling a few 100 kernels the other way;) kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
