[Openswan Users] Do I need to patch the kernel to build OCF with Openswan?

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, David McCullough wrote:

> Jivin Ankit Parikh lays it down ...
> > That's where I am stuck.
> >
> > I am using RHEL 5(kernel 2.6.18), Openswan (3.0.06).
> >
> > I have configured openswan now, but the KLIPS support is pending. I mean, I
> > did make KERNELSRC=/lib/modules/'uname -r'/build module minstall  and got
> > errors !! So, that portion is remaining.
> >
> > So, do I need to apply patches separately, or make programs and make install
> > would do it for me?
>
> I can't recall your errors,  but I would look at what "make kpatch"
> does. You do need to patch your 2.6 kernel but I am not sure of the
> details since I do not use openswan that way, paul or someone in the
> know will probably sort you out ;-)

Using `uname -r` instead of 'uname -r' (note the quotes vs backticks) will be a
start.

Paul