> Why doesn't Mandrake ship "clean" kernel source? By clean, I mean
running
> "make mrproper" before building the src.rpm.
>
because it prevents compiling external modules.
The right way is to ship without .config. then there are options
- add explanation text to Makefile that explains how to get standard
config. Something along the following lines:
ifeq (.config,$(wildcard .config))
include .config
[...]
else
@echo "* You have to configure your kernel source before
compilation"
@echo "* Configuration of your currently running kernel is
stored"
@echo "* in /boot/config-$$(uname -r). To reproduce it copy the
file into"
@echo "* .config and run make oldconfig:"
@echo "* cp /boot/config-$$(uname -r) .config"
@echo "* make oldconfig"
CONFIGURATION = config
do-it-all: config
endif
- additionally do the above. It may be a bit risky, so I think the above
is enough.
> Also, the kernel build process changes all the .depend files in the
kernel
> tree. This is seen by msec, which generates error messages for each
of the
> .depend files because they no longer match what was in
> kernel-source.src.rpm. Using "make mrproper" before building the
src.rpm
> would remove a significant number of messages.
>
As I said, make mrproper is not possible, but we do not need .depend
files, you are right (meaning - do not need to compile external
modules). So the correct state should be
Kernel-source with correct autoconf.h, modversions.h and
include/linux/modules but without .config and .depend.
-andrej
> David
