[TriLUG] a kernel building mini-doc

[rpjday]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, John F Davis wrote:

> Hello
> 
> This is from memory, but I believe you can do this:
> 
> cp .config config.jfd
> make mrproper
> make oldconfig config.jfd
> make dep clean zImage modules modules_install
> 
> If not, look up the rule for oldconfig.  You might have to rename
> config.jfd to arch/i386/defconfig or something.

i'm pretty sure "make oldconfig" works strictly with whatever is in 
the file .config at the time.  unless someone wants to demonstrate
otherwise.

rday