Creating a Custom Kernel on Debian

[luke]

I don't even bother with the /usr/src/linux symlink--there doesn't seem 
any point any more.

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> One thing you might consider is don't do any sym links to the source
> tree until you install the modules and stuff.  That might make a
> difference.
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> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:14:32PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> > Oh wow.  Yeah, it's kind of odd.  It's un-Linux-like to do things behind my 
> > back like that and I find it to be extremely annoying.  I'm redownloading 
> > the kernel archive and am going to try it again to see if the same thing 
> > happens, but when I cd into a kernel tree and make mrproper, I expect it to 
> > start fresh.
> >
> >
> > luke wrote:
> >> I've been noticing a similar behavior with kernel.org tarballs and 
> >> menuconfig, under Ubuntu, without kernel-package installed.
> >>
> >> Luke
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Robert Spangler wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's what is weird - I did.  I used
> >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.1.tar.bz2.  I'll
> >>> investigate it more later - maybe kernel-package is doing something funny?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> >>>> It sounds like you may be using the debian sources, since you
> >>>> mentioned a package. I know that it's normal for what you describe to
> >>>> happen when you do oldconfig, and you don't have a .config file in the
> >>>> kernel source directory, I've never heard of that happening with
> >>>> menuconfig, unless this is a debian thing like you said. What I wanted
> >>>> to mention, in case you weren't aware of it, is that you don't have to use
> >>>> the debian sources to build a custom
> >>>> kernel using kernel-package if you don't want to. I personally use the
> >>>> standard sources from kernel.org.
> >>>>
> >>>> Greg
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:34:23PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wow, this is odd!  I untared the linux-2.6.26.1 package, created a
> >>>>> symlink to it, called linux, and installed a git copy of Speakup to it.
> >>>>> When I go in and do make menuconfig, it tried to take settings out of  the
> >>>>> config file for my current kernel from /boot!  Then, I went to move  that
> >>>>> and it tried to take them from arch/x86/config or  whatever....What's
> >>>>> going on here?  Whatever happened to just plain  custom-kernel building?
> >>>>> LOL...Unless this is a Debian thing but I don't  recall reading about it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Robby
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