On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:44:57AM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > Being one of these difficult people who like sticking to the old way of doing >things, im still compiling my kernel the old way > (config KERNELNAME; cd ../../KERNELNAME; make depend; make ; make install) :P > > I picked up a rumour on the mailing lists that this may no longer work in >future/recent releases?
It's fine when you're rebuilding your kernel with the same sources as your installed world, but if you upgrade your sources and want to build the kernel then this method WILL NOT WORK in all cases (and there have been cases in the past when it would not work). This is why 'make buildkernel' and friends were introduced; they are guaranteed [1] to work properly in all cases. The exact steps are documented in the handbook. Kris [1] Modulo /COPYRIGHT :-)
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