Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:04:34 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Can one build 2.5.68 with allyesconfig? |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:49:03 EDT, Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> said: > > >>Is anyone else able to build 2.5.68 with allyesconfig? >> >>I'm using RH7.2, so the first thing I did was edit the main Makefile to >>replace gcc with "gcc3" (3.0.4). Maybe the compiler is STILL my >> >> >> > >1) I think the 3.0.4 compiler had some issues - 3.2.2 may be a better idea. > > Great. Why do I have a feeling that installing it will bork my workstation? Not to say that it can't be done but that I will probably screw it up. I'm sure that Red Hat (7.2) has some dependencies on there being 2.96 installed. Any suggestions on how I might deal with this problem?
>2) allyesconfig is probably NOT able to build an actual kernel that will >work - in particular, there are a number of pairs/sets of drivers that are >mutually exclusive for a given device. And as you noticed, allyesconfig >will try to build stuff that's known to be b0rken. > I'm not actually going to run the kernel.
> >3) Even if it works, it will be a huge kernel with lots of stuff you almost >certainly don't need (got an ISDN card? I didn't think so ;). You would more >likely want to customize the kernel for what you need, or at least consider >using 'allmodconfig' so you can insmod the parts you need and skip the rest. > > I'm trying to do an allyesconfig kernel so that I can get all printk format strings.
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