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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:56:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Buildroot] How do I configure the kernel?
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On 2009-11-23, Nicholas Walton <nwalton@aplopteng.com> wrote:

>>> That does work, but a more direct way would be to do the linux
>>> configuration through buildroot.
>>>
>>> ~/buildroot % make menuconfig
>>> ~/buildroot % make linux26-menuconfig
>>> ~/buildroot % cp old-linux.config ?output/build/linux-$version/.config
>>> ~/buildroot % make linux26-$either_config
>>> ~/buildroot % make
>>
>> What is $either_config?
>
> menuconfig or oldconfig. Oldconfig will prompt you with new
> options, menuconfig assumes you know what you need to change
> from defaults.

While make linux26-menuconfig works, I could never get "make
linux26-oldconfig" to work.  That's why I resorted to the
method I described.

  $ make linux26-oldconfig
  make: *** No rule to make target linux26-oldconfig'.  Stop.

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