Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Aug 2000 01:23:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: A new config program -- anyone interested? |
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Paul Vojta wrote:
>All of the currently supported ways of configuring the kernel >("make config", "make menuconfig", and "make xconfig") are fundamentally >interactive in nature. When I compile the kernel, I typically set >20-30 choices to non-default settings, and have come up with various >elaborate ways to keep track of those settings when I move to a new >kernel. > >Eventually, I decided to write my own kernel config program. > >I have called it "qconfig" (for lack of a better name). It works as >follows.
You've probably allready been told this, but...
When you do a make menuconfig, etc.. there is a choice at the bottom of the opening screen to "SAVE configuration" and "LOAD configuration". After configuring your kernel, choose "SAVE" and then enter a filename like "/boot/config-2.2.16-1" or whatever you'll remember it as. Next time you run menuconfig, just pick "load config" and then give it the filename. It's been like this since 2.0.0.
Also, if you have an installed kernel source tree that you've compiled and you want to recompile it for some reason you can use:
make oldconfig
So any of your custom settings can allready be saved by the kernel config process.
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