On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400 >> >> schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjo...@riddlemaster.org>: >>> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig >>> command? I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a >>> different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it >>> would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file. >>> It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not >>> provided a solution. >> >> Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option: >> >> # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel? >> OLDCONFIG="no" >> >> HTH > > It did indeed help. I was looking for a command line argument. Didn't even > think of the config file. Thank you!
I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc. Daniel, how do you use genkernel? I've found that I need to run "make oldconfig" or, my preference, "make silentoldconfig" by hand before I ever use genkernel. I copy my old .config to the new kernel directory, run silentoldconfig, then I run genkernel. Is that the problem you're facing or do you see changes between invocations of genkernel?
