[TriLUG] a kernel building mini-doc

Michael Mueller/bhu5nji bhu5nji at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 13 11:06:59 EST 2001


yep.  I saw the "defconfig" used by "make menuconfig" after I did a
"make mrproper" several days ago.

Shown below, that's a pretty novel way to keep your .config safe.  I
use make menuconfig.   That has a dialog to pull in a .config and
another to save to file.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [TriLUG] a kernel building mini-doc


:
: john davis wrote:
:
: > Hello
:
: > I looked at the makefile and at Configure.
:
: > Here's how to do it.
:
: > cp .config config.jfd
: > cp config.jfd arch/i386/defconfig
: > make mrproper
: > make oldconfig
: > make dep clean zImage modules modules_install
:
: ok, this is news to me.  this suggests that, if there is no
.config,
: "make oldconfig" will use the file it finds in
arch/i386/defconfig.
: i was never aware of that.  can anyone else comment on this?
:
: rday
:
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