On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 05:54, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > Thanks for your help. What does the make mrproper command do? I have not run into in > the Linux System Commands book or the 6 inches of Gentoo documentation that I have > download and printed out to help with the install. The documentation that I have > read only indicated that you should do a emerge sync, emerge sys-kernel/sources, > then cd /usr/src/linux, then source /etc/profile, then make menuconfig etc. The only > change to that was to remove the symlink to the kernel and rebuild it to the new > kernel if you are changing kernels. > Just confused and about 8 feet up the wall trying to fix the last problems on the > system and getting nowhere fast. > Thanks for the help. Will let you know how it goes.
mrproper (to my knowledge) is unique to the linux kernel makefiles. It's like clean on steroids, and is designed to return the entire tree back to it's original state. All configuration, generated includes, compiled source, etc, is removed, forcing the regeneration/compilation of everything. The errors you've been getting may be indicative of an incorrect .config, if you copy a .config from a older/newer configured kernel, edit it (bad things can easily happen from manually editing), run 'make oldconfig' first, then menuconfig if you wish to check things over (I always do, and generally find something I missed/could use) -- Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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