On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:38:23AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:20:36 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Greets Folks. > > > > Just a quick reminder that the OSTC is offering a single Lesson in > > 'Compiling your Linux Kernel'. We had several people at the Gentoo mini 'fest > > who said that they were interested. Please make yourselves known by either > > registering on the http://ostc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28 web site or > > replying to this email. > at the risk of being facetious, what is the problem with At the risk of being pedantic... Here's five problems in no particular order. > make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install 1. No need for 'make dep' in recent (2.5.x) kernels. 2. 'make clean' does not clean up everything, which usually results in compile failures when changing certain configuration options--particularlly when moving between SMP and Uniprocessor kernels. 3. The above line assumes the kernel and modules are built as root. This is needless. You should build the kernel and modules under a non-privileged user and use root _only_ to install the kernel and modules. 4. The above line does not account for installing the kernel into /boot, nor updating GRUB/LILO. 5. 'bzImage' is not a valid make target for all architectures. I can come up with more problems, if you like. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
