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On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:27:14 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Bad day... Bad week, and more... Last several kernel updates
> from RedHat have been impossible to use to build custom kernel builds.
>
> I swear I must be doing something fundamental wrong but a
> proceedure
> I've been using to build custom kernels from the RedHat kernel source
> rpm just isn't working any more (and a backup proceedure is even
> worse).
>
> I need a custom kernel to add some options and add some drivers
> (usbvision for one - mods to a kernel driver I MAINTAIN for another).
> The proceedure I HAVE been using is to install the kernel "source" RPM
> from the install CD's and then gone to /usr/src/linux-2.4 and copied
> the appropriate configs/kernel{whatever} to .config and then "make
> oldconfig ; make deps clean bzImage ; make modules" etc... Worked
Drop "make clean" because it is obsolete. Change "make deps" to
"make dep". And execute "make mrproper" once at the very beginning.
> I also tried doing a "make mrproper" followed by a "make
> xconfig"
> where I "loaded" a "configs/kernel-2.4.18-i386.config" config file and
> saved it. That was even WORSE! Then I couldn't even build bzImage!
> That blew up with this error:
Which is a known one somewhere in bugzilla. Don't use "make xconfig",
but "make menuconfig" which doesn't suffer from that error.
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