On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.) wrote: > I have noticed that with linux 2.6.11.12, after I do a 'make > mrproper' (which removes any .config file that the might be there), > and then 'make menuconfig', menuconfig has "remembered" the settings > that I used to build the previous kernel. If .config has been > deleted, where is menuconfig getting this information??? > Sounds very unlikley, Joe. If .config doesn't exist, menuconfig will use the defaults. Of course, if you are now building as a user and there is a .config owned by root, it might still be there along with all the object files that root built.
> How can I restart menuconfig with the "default" config settings from > the original tarball? (Without removing and un-tarring the source > again.) > > - Joe > Probably, make defconfig. Most people will probably keep the config in /proc/config.gz, so to start from a nearly-correct config you can just zcat that to .config (modulo permissions and ownership, of course). Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
