[OLUG] Kernel Source

[kaygee]

As for your last question the answer is yes as long as something sane is
under /usr/src/linux/include you are generally okay deleting the other
source trees.

As for make xconfig I don't ever use it because having X running slows
your builds.  Not that this has any bearing on a missing target for make
it's just my personal preference.  make config is at least as quick I've
found.

Oh, you can also remove the modules for a kernel you don't plan on running
because they wouldn't be any use to you anyway unless you built them
without specifying kernel versioning.

Keith
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There's ease of use and then there's ease of usefulness.
Choose usefulness. Choose Linux.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, mesc wrote:

> I need some help :) I'm trying to get my sound working by recompiling
> the kernel.The first kernel I compiled  booted fine and the sound worked
> fine on most wavs but the others just made static,so I compiled kernel
> #2 (making another directory for it)but it wouldn't boot.Then I
> discovered I made a bonehead mistake,I must have overwritten the
> original kernel source,so I copied the kernel source from my mandrake cd
> to /usr/src and when I installed the RPM it created the directory
> /usr/src/2.2.14 and installed the modules in /lib/modules.    I then
> tried to run make xconfig from /usr/src /linux after creating the
> symbolic link  from 2.2.14 and I got make: *** No rule to make target
> `xconfig'.  Stop.  I was hoping to compile in my sound and  my ethernet
> card.After 2.2.14-12mdk which contained 1 module sheep_net.o and the
> other directory 2.2.14-15mdk which contained the rest of the neccessary
> modules.Any idea why I can't run make xconfig?
>     Also for cleanliness's sake and my sanity can i just remove the
> kernel sources I will never use from /usr/src and their corresponding
> modules  from /lib/modules or do the kernels have to actually be
> uninstalled and if so how would I do that?
> 
>         Thank you,Gary Martin
> 
> 
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