hi,
since i find only rpm packages for rhel4 and i am currently running fc6,i am in need to install oracle asm support and kernel driver from source packages.I downloaded them using subversion.
svn checkout http://oss.oracle.com/projects/oracleasm/src/trunk/

I think the installation method is little bit different.There is no configure script.

The contents of readme file is


[Oracle Linux ASMLib]

This package contains the kernel driver for Oracle's generic Linux ASMLib. To use this driver, you will also need the support tools and the actual ASMLib library. Packages for both are available on the Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com/tech/linux/asmlib/). Building the ASMlib requires a quick run of the configure script in the toplevel directory. It will try to guess the location of your kernel. If you want a specific kernel, see the --with-kernel and --with-vendorkernel options to the configure script. This driver only supports Linux 2.6. You then can run a make. Once built and installed, the support tools will be able to load the driver and configure ASM storage.


the output of ls

[root@server asm-kernel]# ls -l
total 356
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Mar 22 16:25 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27704 Mar 22 16:25 ChangeLog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43458 Mar 22 16:25 config.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1031 Mar 22 16:25 Config.make.in
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31467 Mar 22 16:25 config.sub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4663 Mar 22 16:25 configure.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17992 Mar 22 16:25 COPYING.GPL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25283 Mar 22 16:25 COPYING.LGPL
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 22 16:25 documents
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 16:25 include
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6376 Mar 22 16:25 install-sh
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 22 16:25 kapi-compat
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 22 16:25 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1590 Mar 22 16:25 kfeature.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1089 Mar 22 16:25 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2390 Mar 22 16:25 mbvendor.m4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1801 Mar 22 16:25 mkinstalldirs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5334 Mar 22 16:25 Postamble.make
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 871 Mar 22 16:25 Preamble.make
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 760 Mar 22 16:25 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1139 Mar 22 16:25 README.bugs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4328 Mar 22 16:25 svnrev.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Mar 22 16:25 TODO
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 22 16:25 vendor
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 551 Mar 22 16:25 vendor.guess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228 Mar 22 16:25 Vendor.make


ouput of install.sh and make:

[root@server asm-kernel]# ./install-sh
install: no input file specified
[root@server asm-kernel]# make
Usage: svnrev.guess <packagename>
Usage: svnrev.guess <packagename>
Please run the configure script first
[root@server asm-kernel]#


How can i install package like this?

Thanks for any response.

regards,
Nirmal Tom.V

I haven't really dabbed in subversion yet, and I'm not sure if this will help.
But can't you download there tarball from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/oracleasm/files/sources/
all the files appear to be the same, except it has a configure script, hah..

Either way you make a configure script with autoconf
something like hope that helps!

hi,
The problem with the stable version is, it dont compile for 2.6.20.
give me some make errors
thanks and regards,
Nirmal Tom.

Did autoconf work in compiling a configure script from configure.in?

hi,
thanks.It makes the configure script .I think the package is not compatible 2.6.20 since it gives errors during make.

regards,
Nirmal Tom.