On 30 Jun 2003, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:29, Mike Chambers wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:45, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > > > > "make dep" is not required anymore :-) > > > > I tried compiling a 2.5.73 and it failed, although it wasn't patched > > with anything neither. > > Take a look at what it failed on. I have a stock 2.5.73 kernel running > on two desktops and a laptop. I did however, have to deselect several > features due to compile errors (they didn't apply to my hardware > anyway). I noticed a few of the NIC drivers seemed b0rked. in addition to this and my previous note, there are invariably modules that will cause the 2.5.73 build to fail, regardless of whether you've BK-patched it or not. what to do in that case: 1) check out www.osdl.org/archive/cherry/stability, and look for the most recent list of build errors. 2) run the make with the "-ki" options (see "man make" for why). there are some modules that simply won't build (obsolete and unsupported possibly), and you have no choice but to identify and deselect them. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
