A compiling procedure question.

Geoff Shang gshang at uq.net.au
Tue Jan 15 11:58:29 EST 2002


On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> Greg.  If you want to retain all answers though you need to edit .config
> and do make oldconfig as it was stated.  Simply doing make config will
> blow away your existing .config and prompt you for everything again.

This is *NOT!!!* correct.  Yes, 'make config' will prompt you for
everything again, but your current answers are given as defaults and
hitting enter will retain them.  I've gone through 'make config' a few
times in the early days when I had to fix one answer.  It's tedious but you
can do it.  'make oldconfig' will only prompt you for new questions, and is
designed to be run on a newer release kernel than the one it was previously
run for (so you only get asked the new questions).  'make config' and 'make
menuconfig' will edit your existing setup.

AFAIK, the only commands that will blow away your .config are 'make
mrproper' and 'rm .config'.

Geoff.






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