Linux Headers changing dir structure? (Garnome Compile issues)

lukeiamyourfather · 11-23-2008, 08:50 PM

Hi all. I've been an avid Ubuntu user for a while and recently switched to Debian. I like the flexibility.

The thing is is that Debian runs lots of old (while stable) packages. A bit of a problem for what I am attempting.

I want a mostly source-based distro. Had all kinds of fun with LFS

. So I want an up-to-date kernel, Gnome, E17, and other software setup, all compiled by myself from source. I built a 2.6.27.6 kernel and initrd successfully, installed headers, etc. Well, got to running the latest version of Garnome, and after fixing many dependency issues (thank God for APT) finally got here:

Code:

clude -L/home/christopher/garnome/lib -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wchar-subscripts -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Wformat -Wformat-security -MT polkit-sysdeps.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/polkit-sysdeps.Tpo -c polkit-sysdeps.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/polkit-sysdeps.o
polkit-sysdeps.c:55:25: error: sys/inotify.h: No such file or directory
make[11]: *** [polkit-sysdeps.lo] Error 1
make[11]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/freedesktop/PolicyKit/work/main.d/PolicyKit-0.9/src/polkit'
make[10]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[10]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/freedesktop/PolicyKit/work/main.d/PolicyKit-0.9/src'
make[9]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/freedesktop/PolicyKit/work/main.d/PolicyKit-0.9'
make[8]: *** [all] Error 2
make[8]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/freedesktop/PolicyKit/work/main.d/PolicyKit-0.9'
make[7]: *** [build-work/main.d/PolicyKit-0.9/Makefile] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/freedesktop/PolicyKit'
make[6]: *** [../../freedesktop/PolicyKit/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/platform/GConf'
make[5]: *** [../../platform/GConf/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/platform/gnome-vfs'
make[4]: *** [../../platform/gnome-vfs/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/platform/libgnome'
make[3]: *** [../../platform/libgnome/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/platform/libbonoboui'
make[2]: *** [../../platform/libbonoboui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/platform/libgnomeui'
make[1]: *** [../../platform/libgnomeui/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/christopher/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/desktop/bug-buddy'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2
christopher@cma-dell-debian:~/pkgs/garnome-2.24.0/desktop$

I am not an expert (yet) but I am concluding that inotify.h is a kernel header file, and Garnome is looking for it in a directory structure for an older kernel, because I found the file in /usr/include/linux/. So I tryed copying inotify.h to the /usr/include/sys/ directory, but it gave some other undefined error.

Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the long post.

Thanks,
Chris

salter · 11-24-2008, 06:26 PM

Simply copying inotify.h will not help. If it's missing from the system headers, then it is likely to not have been compiled in the running kernel anyway, assuming that you did all the compilation correctly and are using the same header files. Adding that header only propagates functionality that is not available.

You should check if inotify has been replaced or obsoleted in the kernel code. Then check if Garnome is known to run under recent kernels.

Also check if your include locations really have the those set of header files that you have used to compile the kernel.

Otherwise: this is the true beauty of compiling entire systems from source. It's also how I learned to love packaging systems.

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