How to build my own Linux tarball?

[Michael David Crawford <mdc@prgmr.com>]

I'm trying to build my own version of the Linux Dom0 kernel.  I started 
with the linux-2.6.18-xen-3.3.0 tarball, then made some edits, then 
rolled up my sources into a .tar.bz2.

According to the Wiki I should be able to build using *my* version of 
the sources with the following commands:

$ export XEN_LINUX_SOURCE=tarball
$ make world

but no matter what I try, I can't get it to build my source.  Sometimes 
it wants to download the kernel.org tarball, and sometimes the build 
just fails, depending on what I try.

I have Googled from horizon to horizon, but have not found any insight.

If the above commands are expected to work, where exactly should my 
tarball be placed in relation to the xen-3.3.1 directory?

Does my Linux tarball have to have a particular name?

Thanks!

Mike
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