Question on kernel-devel package

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 2:33 PM Allan Graves <allan.graves at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hi –
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> We are attempting to use the sles15 sp6 beta to build a kernel driver.
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> However, when attempting to install the kernel-devel package, it complains that 'elfutils-libelf-devel’  is not available.  I don’t see this in the download media or anywhere else, where can we get this package for sles15 sp6?
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> PACKAGE                                       INSTALLATION
> hostname                                      [OK]
> wget                                          [OK]
> make                                          [OK]
> bc                                            [OK]
> net-tools                                     [OK]
> rsync                                         [OK]
> perl                                          [OK]
> binutils                                      [OK]
> flex                                          [OK]
> bison                                         [OK]
> elfutils-libelf-devel                         [FAILED]
> file                                          [OK]
> nano                                          [FAILED]
> vim                                           [OK]
> binutils-devel                                [OK]
> tar                                           [OK]
> sudo                                          [OK]
> awk                                           [OK]
> libelf-devel                                  [OK]
> gcc7-7.5.0+r278197-150000.4.35.1.x86_64       [OK]
> RPM                                           COMPILATION
> kernel-default-devel-6.4.0-150600.9.2.x86_64  [FAILED]
> kernel-devel-6.4.0-150600.9.2.noarch          [FAILED]
> kernel-macros-6.4.0-150600.9.2.noarch         [FAILED]
> MODULE                                        COMPILATION
> hello.c                                       [FAILED]Next errors found while trying to install packages in kroot:
>  Package 'elfutils-libelf-devel' not found.

elfutils-libelf-devel is the RH/Fedora name for this package. In SUSE
distributions, it's libelf-devel.

To make this easier, just request "pkgconfig(libelf)" which works across both.


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