On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, James Fowler wrote:
> I always have done
> 'make clean'
> make dep
> make mrproper (this part I sometimes don't do as I am not clear on its
> function)
> make boot
> make modules modules_install
Wow, I'm surprised it worked in the past :-) You need to configure it
before compiling it. 'make mrproper' does a pretty thorough cleaning,
btw. In fact, you can replace 'make clean' with 'make mrproper' since
mrproper calls the clean target before it does it's thing. Usually, this
is my process:
make distclean (calls mrproper and clean targets and also does other
stuff...I usually do this to have a good base for diffs)
make config (or make oldconfig, if I have a recent and good .config in
the dir)
make dep
make modules
make modules_install
make boot
I personally prefer to build the modules first since I mostly modularise
my kernel and also because that's where I've often run into problems
first. I usually don't see the point of embarking on a (longer) kernel
build only to find out that I can't build the modules (which usually takes
less time to find out).
C
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