Re: Red Hat Kernel Sources



On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 13:53, Greg Golin wrote:

> How many of you have been able to compile a kernel from redhat sources
> without a problem? I don't think I've ever done it successfully. I
> consistently run into the same problem, make modules errors out on
> something. I go and disable that something and try again, at which
> point make modules fails with something else, goto 10. Eventually I
> run out of patience and go look at something shiny. Never had a
> problem with kernel.org kernels though. Is there something I need to
> do beyond the make oldconfig/make bzImage/make modules/make
> modules_install?

Been compiling them for years. I usually do "make menuconfig" or "make
xconfig" as I'm trying to add/remove something specific. My process is:

make mrproper
make [menuconfig|xconfig]
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

-Eric

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