make oldconfig

[Jack Bowling]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:21:48PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:14:08PM -0500, David C. Hart wrote:
>  > "Q. When I try to compile the Fedora kernel I get..
>  >    kernel/kernel.o(.text+0xfc3): In function `schedule':
>  >    : undefined reference to `active_load_balance'
>  > A. This is a bug caused by a limitation in the 2.4
>  >    config system. Run make oldconfig twice to work around this.
>  >    We are working on a better solution."
>  > 
>  > Maybe this will make life easier. WHERE in the process do I run make
>  > oldconfig? My normal "make" routine is: clean, mrproper, clean, bzImage,
>  > modules, modules_install, install.
> 
> I use..
> 
> make mrproper
> cp configs/whatever .config
> make oldconfig
> make oldconfig
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install

Just on a point of interest, isn't a "make clean" after a "make
mrproper" redundant?

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Jack Bowling
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