On Tue, 13 Jul, 2004 at 16:16:48 +0200, Erich Titl wrote:
> Jon

<snip> 

> >Next step is to get the 'Bering patches' applied.
> >
> >> Look into the Makefile it's easy to extend if you like it.
> >
> >Indeed this looks nice. Sadly I don't fully understand what's going on :P
> 
> If you have specific questions, shoot.
 
Thanks, I will... though not quite yet - you already answered my first one:
 
> >Am I correct in assuming that the whole idea is that you can build
> >everything by just issuing 'make' in $CWD ?
> 
> Theoretically speaking yes, I still do it in a few steps
> 
> 'make patched'  _should_ produce a patched linux source directory  
> 'make image'  builds a compressed linux kernel
> 'make modules'  well...... modules
> 'make modules_install'   places the modules in a tree under $CWD/modules 

Right.

I'm not very "at home" in Makefiles yet... But setting $EXTRAVERSION is a
start i guess :)
 
> for the userland stuff see below
> 
> >Should this work in debian_woody-UML? (I see references to slink...)
> 
> You beat me there, I am a coward when it comes to UML.

You should check it out though. It's served me quite well, and since it has
all the right compiler/libraries/etc, even I can produce kernels that
boot... I really wouldn't want mess with all that on the host-host.

Pretty easy to set up, too... nudge, nudge... :)

> I do all my compiles on my SuSE 8.2++ server, which does not really have a
> console. So for compiling userland stuff I just chroot into Jacques' old
> slink filesystem.

Right.

I think I'll stick with the uml method.

Hopefully I'll have some more time tomorrow.

Thanks again.
Jon
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