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Tom Syroid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm preparing to build/test the new 2.6 kernel on my dual Athlon > box. I'm current running gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r5. welcome to the club. > My question is this: In the past it's been noted on numerous > occasions the importance of having the link /usr/src/linux pointing > to the current kernel before configuration. Does this advice also > apply to the 2.5.x series kernels, linked as "linux-beta"? generally speaking, you want /usr/src/linux to point to your running kernel. some ebuilds use /usr/src/linux and not /lib/modules/`uname -r`. > In other words, do I need to create a /usr/src/linux symlink to the > 2.6 test directory, or will the existing linux-beta symlink suffice? I used /usr/src/linux even for my 2.5.X-testing because of ebuilds doing interesting things at times. on the upside, things work. :-) -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
