Re: Building a Custom Kernel

[Ben Hill <ben@serosoft.com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:21 +0000, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 22:16, Ben Hill wrote:
> > Could anyone give me a quick bullet-point list of the stages of building
> > a 2.6.8 powerpc kernel?
> >
> > I'm used to the traditional method, but I'd like to do it the Debian
> > way.
> 
> apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8
> cd /usr/src
> tar xvjf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2
> cd kernel-source-2.6.8
> make-kpkg --config=menuconfig configure
> make-kpkg binary
> cd ..
> dpkg -i kernel*2.6.8*.deb

I'm on the right track then. I've got to well through the build until:

*** No rule to make target `drivers/net/tg3.c', needed by
`drivers/net/tg3.o'.  Stop.

stops the build. :-(

Thought I'd missed something..

> 
> I *think* that's right.  Probably forgot something ;)
> 
> You might want to read the stuff in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package, though :)
> 
> -- 
> Lee.
> 
>