Exactly my point. The orignal poster of this thread was wondering about editing .config by hand. In one of my posts I told him it's not recommended. This post was in response to how the process worked.
David A. Bandel wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:31:26 -0400 > "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You run make menuconfig which gives you a menu of stuff that you can >> change. When you exit and save the file .config in /usr/src/linux is >> created or modified. It uses that to figure out what to build. > > Yes, but .config should _not_ be edited by hand. There are dependency > issues and you can more likely than not configure a kernel that won't > compile (which is what `make [x|menu]config` is designed to handle. A > non-compilable kernel is much less likely using the tools provided. > > But knock yourself out! > > Ciao, > > David A. Bandel -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
