Redhat 8.0, no rpm, can't compile.

[Ironphil]

Hi, I just installed Redhat 8.0 and I want to enable 3d by installing the nvidia drivers. There is no rpm for the kernel so far. This is not a problem since it is easy to compile but for a reason I don't know, it doesn't work. I get something like that:

make: *** [nv.o] Error 1

This is with the tar.gz, I also tried with the .src.rpm and it also doesn't work. Had no problem with Mandrake 9.0.

Anyone installed the drivers on Redhat 8.0?

[bwkaz]

What are the ten or fifteen lines before "make: *** [nv.o] Error 1"?

OK, we can see there's been an error, but ... err ... we can't tell what it was.

If you want, you can make >log.txt 2>&1 and attach the resulting log.txt file to your next post, that way you'd be sure to catch the error (you'd catch all the output).

At a guess, I'd say you need to install kernel-source. But that's purely a guess, based on the number of times it fixes problems -- I would need to see the actual error that gcc is giving to be able to know for sure.

[g=D]

I have the same problem... I think it might be because RH8 is based on gcc 3.2... I might be dead wrong however. Tried to attach a tarball, board didn't like it.

Mostly it's a bunch of errors like:
/usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/kernel.h:60: invalid suffix on integer constant
usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/module.h:187: parse error before numeric constant

[Ironphil]

Here is the log file of the compile, I hope it helps.

By the way, I don't think it is related to GCC 3.2 since Mandrake use it too and I had no problem.

[Ironphil]

Just installed the kernel development packages and I tried with both the tarball and the src.rpm and it works great. Thanks for the suggestion about the kernel sources and stuff like that.

[woffutt]

You'd be helping the cause... *grin*

[g=D]

I'm beginning to think my kernel rpms are bad. It wouldn't build the kernel on a fresh install but it would build a vanilla just fine, along with the driver.