Red Hat Kernel Sources

[Greg Golin]

Thanks for the advice, I was actually able to recompile a kernel last night.

Regards,
Greg

On 1/30/06, A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru <A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Eric Sisler
> > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:52 AM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: Re: Red Hat Kernel Sources
> >
> > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 13:53, Greg Golin wrote:
> >
> > > How many of you have been able to compile a kernel from redhat
> sources
> > > without a problem? I don't think I've ever done it successfully. I
> > > consistently run into the same problem, make modules errors out on
> > > something. I go and disable that something and try again, at which
> > > point make modules fails with something else, goto 10. Eventually I
> > > run out of patience and go look at something shiny. Never had a
> > > problem with kernel.org kernels though. Is there something I need to
> > > do beyond the make oldconfig/make bzImage/make modules/make
> > > modules_install?
> >
> > Been compiling them for years.  I usually do "make menuconfig" or
> "make
> > xconfig" as I'm trying to add/remove something specific.  My process
> is:
> >
> > make mrproper
> > make [menuconfig|xconfig]
> > make dep
> > make clean
> > make bzImage
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > --
> >
> > Eric Sisler <esisler at westminster.lib.co.us>
> > Library Applications Specialist
> > Westminster Public Library
> > Westminster, CO USA
> >
>
> If you want to make any changes to the default kernel configuration you
> should take note that 'make mrproper' would clear such changes (it would
> delete the file '.config' which contain the configuration). Therefore,
> if you have already made any configuration changes via menuconfig or
> xconfig you should either do not issue command 'make proper' or backup
> .config somewhere before that command and restore after that command.
> Actually, 'make mrproper' command is usually needed only after
> unsuccessful kernel builds when 'make clean' does not restore the
> correct source tree state - such an incorrect state may be the reason of
> errors during compilation (usually those errors relate to files'
> dependencies). Usually, 'make clean' is enough to wipe the files created
> or modified by the unsuccessful build attempt and restore correct state.
>
> Alexey Fadyushin
> Brainbench MVP for Linux
> http://www.brainbench.com
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