Re: Updated Howto needed: How to compile a kernel like etch's.

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:43:18PM +0000, Nick Hill wrote:
> Hello Jurij
> 
> Thank you for this. I will look through the book, try out the commands 
> on sarge and etch and report back to you my findings.
> 
> Horms,
> Thank you for the summary. You have made the versioned patching system 
> clearer to me. I tried the commands you suggested to build the kernel. I 
> have had package versioning problems trying to compile etch kernel on 
> sarge ( gcc (>= 4:4.0) kernel-package (>= 9.008.3) ). 

I have been having very good luck building 2.6.14-2 with all of the 
folowing combinations, on sid:

  i386: gcc 4.0.2-3, kernel-package 9.008.4
  powerpc: 4.0.2-2, kernel-package 9.008.4
  hppa: 4.0.2-2, kernel-package 9.008.4

I heard a whisper of some problems with 4.0.2-3, but I have not
seen evidence of that on i386. On the other hand, I've held back
on upgrading the others. I have some vauge memory of a problem with
9.008.3, but I can't put a finger on it.

> When I override 
> (-d) it appears there is no .config file. I don't know whether that is 
> because kernel-package <=9.008.3 fails to create .config.

I'm not quite sure what you are refering to there. But in any case,
give kernel-package 9.008.4 a spin.

-- 
Horms