On 5 Oct 2002, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wrote this little guide at osnews.com and thought it might be usefull
> for some people. I would be happy if it would be copied to some places
> to help more people with the same problem. You don't need to ask me for
> permission. ;) I wrote this in a different style than usual Linux
> howto's because I think there is a market for Linux howto's which don't
> make the issue worse or more complicated than it is. :) I also tried to
> cover every possible error so an unexperienced user won't get lost
> during the process.
> Here it is (please tell me if something is wrong, inaccurate or
> confusing):
>
[...]
>
> *6.) Type the following command: "rpmbuild --rebuild
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm". Of course the version number of your
> src.rpm might differ. You can use tab completion so simply hit TAB once
> you wrote a part of the filename down. Capitalization does matter.
Might be worthwile to include the --target option on the rpmbuild command.
NVidia includes precompiled kernels for various CPUs, but there's no need
to give that up if you recompile yourself.
For example:
rpmbuild --rebuild --terget athlon NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild --terget i686 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.src.rpm
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
