On Saturday 23 February 2002 04:45 am, you wrote: > Hi All I can see why people get so p*** off with lists, especially > cooker which your mail gets blocked if the word "help" is used.
I can undesrtand why they'd do something like that - cooker is not a help list, per se. It's there to assist with the distro development, not solve general problems for regular users. And posting in all caps is considered shouting, so that may get you ignored as well. And, as a general rule, posts with "help' scattered liberally throughout the Subject line tend to be from people who haven't read the man page or the docs, haven't searched the list archives, haven't done a web search, and in general haven't expended any effort o their own behalf to solve their own problem. We're all guilt of that at times becase the effort to reserach a solution may be disproportionate to the problem itself and it is easier to tap a guru on the shoulder and get a quick answer. And all this is not to belittle your request for help. If your problem is really with a cooker kernel and a problem trying to recomplie the current cooker kernel because of some problem with it, re-state your request and ask the cooker list (without shouting "HELP"). But if the problem appears to be operator error and not a cooker problem, you'll likely not get an answer. I haven't complied a kernel in a few years, but from what you posted, it looks like you're having a dependency problem with the 3rd party apps, even if you deselect them all in the config file. Try moving the /usr/src/linux/3rdparty directory somewhere else and see what happens and use make distclean or make mrproper (I forget which one is appropriate it's been so long, so you'll have to look that one up). If you still have trouble and need to use a ptached kernel, try patching the "official" kernel sources and not the already heavily patched Mandrake sources. I never had much luck tryng to patch them. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com
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