From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:18:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:18:07 -0400 Received: from tmhoyle.gotadsl.co.uk ([195.149.46.162]:46351 "EHLO mail.cvsnt.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:17:59 -0400 From: Tony Hoyle Subject: Re: 2.4.xx won't recompile. Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 19:18:10 +0100 Organization: cvsnt.org news server Message-ID: <3B7EB162.5070207@nothing-on.tv> In-Reply-To: <01081812570001.09229@bits.linuxball> <001901c12810$97ef3a70$020a0a0a@totalmef> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sisko.my.home 998158690 30315 192.168.100.2 (18 Aug 2001 18:18:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cvsnt.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010810 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote: > Isn't it more safe to do it like this: > > make mrproper > cp ../linux-2.4.8/.config . > make oldconfig > make xconfig > make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install > > ? > I thought this was the proper way to do it, no? > You don't need to make bzimage first, and you missed the dep/clean steps (theoretically not needed any more but I've had some really strange compiler errors by missing them out). cp ../linux-2.4.8/.config . make oldconfig make xconfig make dep clean install modules modules_install Tony