daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> writes: > 2009/11/4 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com>: >> I'll say right from the start, that building a new kernel, has always >> been a problem for me. I don't remember ever not having a problem, in >> 10+ yrs.. >> >> Many people here seem to find it completely easy... not me. >> >> I tried closely comparing the current working kernel with newly built >> one. I mean side by side with `make menuconfig' running in both sources. >> I cannot tell what it is I'm overlooking. > > Please do not do this. Instead emerge kccmp to compare kernel > configurations! It is much easier...trust me, I tried brute-force as > well!
Thanks for the tip... that tool does look useful. At least for kernel comparison I think it might beat the poop out of the ediff mode in emacs. Although the emacs tools are better in general. I managed to get the kernel figured out... (with plenty of help here) but I think I'll tinker with kccmp, see how it works, and be ready for next time. Really though, the whole problem was due to my foolish failure to put the old .config into the new sources, before running `make oldconfig". I think it would have gone off nice and smooth if I had. Answering a dozen or so questions on the cmdline beats the poop out of flopping around in menuconfig, or even worse, 2 instances of menuconfig. What is really maddening is that I once knew how to do the stuff with .config and `make oldconfig'. Here lately I seem to forget things I once knew if I don't use the knowledge for a mnth or two.
