Re: problem compiling 2.6.16.1

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:21:46AM +0200, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:

> Hi all,
> a friend of mine got this error compiling 2.6.16.1 and we don't know
> what's wrong:
> 
> uno:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.1#   make O=/home/dan/build/kernel menuconfig
>  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>...
> /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory
>...
> Any hint?

Your friend has gcc installed, but not the kernel headers that should 
be provided by his distribution for usage with his libc (although they 
are similar, these are _not_ the headers of the kernel he is trying 
to compile).

> Paolo

cu
Adrian

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