Sascha Noyes wrote:
You could do a search at www.groups.google.com to get an overview and here are some of the points that lead me to say to make mrproper:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:52 pm, Rolf Pedersen wrote:Do you make mrproper as the first step? Move .config out of the way if you want to use it or use /boot/config but mrproper should be the first step.
Sorry but I have no idea what 'make mrproper' is. Do you mean use it before 'make xconfig'?
And the '.config' file - should I move that away while using mrproper? Or for the whole process? And what is the relationship between .config in /usr/src/linux/ and /boot/config.
Thanks,
Sascha
It's stated in the README by, iianm, Linus:
$ cat /usr/src/linux/README | grep -A3 -B3 mrproper
- Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
cd linux
make mrproper
You should now have the sources correctly installed.
It's part of the HOWTO at MUO Docs:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade3.html#config
Juan Quintela, Mandrake's kernel developer, made the most recent statement of authority about this step that I know of:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg80179.html
The configuration of your current kernel is in /boot/config or /usr/src/linux/.conf, at least in stock Mandrake install situations:
[rolf@localhost rolf]$ diff -u /usr/src/linux/.config /boot/config
[rolf@localhost rolf]$
Move .config if you want to use it as make mrproper erases it. What I do is to make mrproper, make xconfig, load config from /boot/config, make changes that interest me, then use the two chains of commands from the MUO Howto. This automatically changes the version of the kernel to -mdkcustom, installs it in /boot, makes an initrd, changes the default links in /boot, and runs lilo, as needed. Pretty easy.
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