> Another piece of advice, in general to anyone building a
> kernel. Before starting, each time, either untar fresh kernel
> source, or do a "make distclean" before all else. "distclean" is
> the 'cleanest' clean in the top level makefile, even moreso than
> the commonly used "make clean" and "make mrproper". I use
> distclean every time as a first step, and it minimalizes the
> chance of trouble significantly.
distclean requires you reconfigure from scratch; seems a sure way to create
more problems.
I'm content to believe the kernel developers; one needs do no more than
make xconfig # menuconfig and config are alternative targets
make bzImage # there are alternative targets here too
make modules
make install
make modules_install
Note that I have a script from RHI that puts the kernels in the Right Place
and also runs lilo.
Note that these steps can be combined:
make xconfig bzImage modules ...
To upgrade (patch) the kernel, you start out by applying the patch (there are
alternative ways there, read the documentation), and you can make oldconfig
rather than make xconfig to answer only any new questions that have arisen.
Note
Unless you've only make configuration changes, combining steps with make
*config isn't such a good ideal there's a message pops out to tell you what
you ought to do next, and it might be "make dep."
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