[ILUG] SuSE /boot files

[Declan Moriarty]

Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> On 18 Jan 2006, at 21:31, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> 
> >If somebody there is running Suse, can you tell me
> >
> >1. The o/p of uname -r
> 
> You were just a teensy bit non specific about versions, so:
> 
> SuSE		uname -r
> 
> 9.3     2.6.11.4-20a-default
> 9.2     2.6.8-24.11-smp
> 9.1     2.6.5-7.95-default
> SLES 9  2.6.5-7.97-smp
> 
> >2. What /boot/version.h says
> >
> >3. What /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h says.
> 
> Neither of these files exists in any of the above versions of SuSE as 
> installed.
> 
> >I'm running linux from scratch here
> 
> I'm sorry for your troubles.

Thanks for that

/Leaping to defence.

There's nothing wrong with LFS - it just makes you work, and
learn.

Here's the bit of the Makefile

# SuSE has the version.h and autoconf.h headers for the current
# kernel
# in /boot as /boot/vmlinuz.version.h and
# /boot/vmlinuz.autoconf.h.
# Check these first to see if they match the running kernel.

BOOTVERSION_PREFIX = /boot/vmlinuz.

V := $(shell if [ -f $(BOOTVERSION_PREFIX)version.h ]; then \
        grep UTS_RELEASE $(BOOTVERSION_PREFIX)version.h | \
        cut -d' ' -f3; fi)

ifeq ($(V),"$(RUNNING_REL)")
HEADERFROMBOOT := 1
GETCONFIG := MAKEFILES=$(shell pwd)/.config
HAVECONFIG := y
endif


These are in fact in <kernel-source>/include/linux, i.e version.h
and autoconf.h. Autoconf.h is the kernel config in define
statements (?) and version.h is like this

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.14.3-grsec-05"
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132622
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

So I can get away with just copying version.h to
/boot/vmlinuz.version.h my puny script grokking skills inform me.
They seem to be looking for the first line of version.h.

-- 

	With best Regards,


	Declan Moriarty.