On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>As of 8.0, running make mrproper is now required. (It didn't used to be.) => =>I downloaded the kernel-sources rpm for 2.4.18-17... to do a new kernel. I =>ran into problems. If I do a make mrproper first, it craps out down the =>line in the make dep. If I don't do the mrproper, I get unresolved symbols =>during the bzImage. So I downloaded the src rpm for the kernel and did an =>rpmbuild -ba to see what Red Hat is doing for a kernel build. I haven't =>had a chance to do a full analysis yet and I won't have time to get to it =>until sometime tomorrow. But I'd like to ask if someone can save me a =>couple of hours work by just simply telling me what the right set of steps =>are. => =>In addition to the mrproper, clean, dep, bzImage, modules and =>modules_install, I'm also seeing a couple of other things happening. => =>make -s oldconfig_nonint =>make -s include/linux/version.h => => =>Anyone know the correct exact sequence for a kernel build these days? => =>TIA I got a new kernel built last night. I just want to pass on what I learned. I never had a need to do an mrproper before 8.0. Now that 8.0 is out, I found that mrproper is required. The problem shifted again when the upgrade came out as 2.4.18-17.8.0. It turns out that after the mrproper is done and you have created your .config file, you must run make oldconfig. The spec file actually does an oldconfig_nonint. After that, the dep, bzImage, modules works fine. Note that the clean is not needed after the mrproper since mrproper does a clean. I really wish that that kernel docs for how to build would be updated. They're really quite useless. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo@syslang.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
