asterisk users - Jan 2007 - Symbolic Link

Hi List;

To create the symbolic link, I read in the documenation that I have to type this
command:

# ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux-2.4

1) What it means by 'uname -r'?
2) Why I have to create such symbolic link to do pointing for the kernel? For
what exctly will be used with asterisk?
3) What is the relation between creating such symbolic link and build directory?

Any advise.

Regards
Bilal


 
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--- bilal ghayyad <bilmar_gh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> To create the symbolic link, I read in the documenation that I have
> to type this command:
> 
> # ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux-2.4
> 
> 1) What it means by 'uname -r'?
> 2) Why I have to create such symbolic link to do pointing for the
> kernel? For what exctly will be used with asterisk?
> 3) What is the relation between creating such symbolic link and build
> directory?
> 
> Any advise.
> 
> Regards
> Bilal
1) those are backticks: `uname -r`  (it prints the kernel release)
2) ?
3) don't understand your question

what are you trying to do??


 
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bilal ghayyad wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> To create the symbolic link, I read in the documenation that I have to type
this command:
>
> # ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux-2.4
>
> 1) What it means by 'uname -r'?
> 2) Why I have to create such symbolic link to do pointing for the kernel?
For what exctly will be used with asterisk?
> 3) What is the relation between creating such symbolic link and build
directory?
>
> Any advise.
>
> Regards
> Bilal
>
>
>  
>
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1) Try "uname -r" at the command line and "man uname"

2) Asterisk needs to access header files from the current version of 
your kernel source code

3) This allows the Asterisk build process to find the kernel source 
under a base kernel version name without knowing the detailed version 
number.

regards,

Drew