Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel with xconfig?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Monday 17 Nov 2003 19:58, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> By default, genkernel --config always uses menuconfig. Is there an
> option that will tell it to use xconfig if available?

This is what I use:

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#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/build-kernel

### NOTES ###
To build Mandrake kernels, chroot from Gentoo, because otherwise
you'll never get in if your drives are hd{e,f,g} etc.  This is
because Mandrake always sets "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD".
#############

# start this script from the kernel source directory,
# for example /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-xfs-r2
# ...test for that...
grep -q "Linux kernel" ./README
if [ "$(echo $?)" != "0" ] ; then
        echo "ERROR: You don't appear to be in a kernel source directory"
        echo
        exit 1
fi

# remove symlink
if [ "$( file ../linux | grep 'symbolic link' )" != "" ]; then
        rm -f ../linux
fi

# This kernel variable produces something like "-2.4.20-xfs-r2"
kernel=$(pwd | cut -dx -f2-9)

# make symlink
cd ..
ln -sf linux${kernel} linux
ln -sf . ../linux

cd linux${kernel}

# comment these 3 lines if you don't need mrproper
#cp .config ..
#make mrproper
#cp ../.config .

# check timestamp of .config
CONFTIME=$(ls -l .config | awk '{print $6,$7,$8}')

# use old if you told it to, or preferably xconfig if it can. else 
menuconfig.
if [ "$1" == "old" ]; then
        make oldconfig
else
        make xconfig
        [ $(echo $?) -eq 0 ] || make menuconfig
fi

if [ "$(ls -l .config | awk '{print $6,$7}')" == "$CONFTIME" ] ; then
        echo
        echo "    .config file unchanged...aborting"
        exit 0
fi

# NOTE**  make dep not required for 2.6 kernels
make dep clean
if [ $(echo $?) -ne 0 ] ; then
        echo
        echo "    make dep clean failed"
        exit 1
fi

make bzImage
if [ $(echo $?) -ne 0 ] ; then
        echo
        echo "    make bzImage failed"
        exit 1
fi

make modules
if [ $(echo $?) -ne 0 ] ; then
        echo
        echo "    make modules failed"
        exit 1
fi

make modules_install
if [ $(echo $?) -ne 0 ] ; then
        echo
        echo "    make modules_install failed"
        exit 1
fi

[ "$(grep boot /etc/mtab)" == "" ] && mount /boot
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz$kernel
cp System.map /boot/System.map$kernel
cp .config /boot/.config$kernel
sync

### MANDRAKE ONLY ###
# mkinitrd /boot/initrd${kernel}.img $( echo ${kernel} | cut -d- 
-f2,3,4 )
#####################

echo
echo "    All done.  Now edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot"
#################################################################

Peter
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