Re: compiling Kernel

[Paul Wright <paul@cvanet.com>]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2001 03:43:31 PDT, Dan wrote:

> when I #make menuconfig, or make config, I get the fallowing error;
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target 'config' . Stop.
> 
> Also from the articles I've read about compiling the Kernel the =
> /usr/linux directory is referenced, however I don't have this directory.
> What am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

My guess would be that you are not in the source directory.  cd to

/usr/src/linux 

or wherever you unpacked your kernel-source.  I use

/var/tmp/build/kernel-source-[version]

to build my kernel-image packages so I don't have to be root to build 
them, but others may choose differently.

-ptw

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