Re: Kernel source of an installed vanilla kernel (FC3)

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:23:46 -0500

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:43:53 +0200, Ilja Sekler wrote:

> Is it safe to free the disc space and to delete everything in the kernel
> build tree except of headers, makefiles and Kconfig files? (I would like
> still to be able to build applications and external modules from source
> when needed.) Is there a command to do it automatically?

Can't completely delete it, but you can save a ton of space:

# cd /usr/src/linux-<version>
# mv .config /tmp/x.config
# make mrproper
# mv /tmp/x.config .config
# make oldconfig
# make modules_prepare

and then you should be ready to build third-party modules. You don't
need _any_ of this to build applications.

HTH

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