[UFO Chicago] kernel building, quick and dirty

[BrianT.Grant]

I found out about "make oldconfig" last week and had tried it out.  I think that was the kernel that hung immediatly.  I could try it again and see what I get. 

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(time passes)

I just tried it again, and the kernel compile didn't go through without errors.  

Brian

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:25:48 +0100
Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> wrote:

> >>>>> "BTG" == Brian T Grant <sbgrant@telocity.com> writes:
> 
>     BTG> Both make dep and make clean ran fine - as far as I could
>     BTG> tell - but make bzImage errored out quite early.  My problem
>     BTG> was the result of Stel's .config file having been from kernel
>     BTG> 2.4.2, and I was working with 2.4.5.
> 
> A nice way to bring a .config from an older kernel to a new one is to
> simply copy it to the kernel directory (naming it .config, of course)
> and run `make oldconfig'.  This will run through the config file and
> ask you about any new options added since that config file was
> generated.  I've brought my .config file from early 2.4.0 releases all
> the way to 2.4.7 with no problems using this method.  Once you have
> done that, you can use `make menuconfig' or `make xconfig' to
> add/remove any other options as appropriate.
> 
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