Hi Andy. Sorry for posting this as a new thread, but I only signed up to the mailing list today and saw this in the archives.
I'm not sure what prepare-all does, but cloneconfig is supposed to setup the config. so that it matches the currently running kernel. It is very useful if, for example, you want to compile the kernel with just a few changes but don't have/know the original configuration. I say 'supposed to' because this is largely going on memory - it is several years since I used this flag (heck it is several years since I compiled a kernel) - I assume it still does the same thing. I just did a quick Google, and it appears it is a SUSEism. That would make sense as I was using SuSE (probably 8.x) when I came across it. There have been some calls to get it added upstream to the main kernel source http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.3/0047.html - I had a look in a recent vanilla makefile (2.6.24) and it doesn't appear to be there, so I guess it is still a SUSEism. Regards Jeremy. > Hi > > I will be posting a few new topics today to see if anyone has the > information and to get the official LPI answer : > (these are from the NEW April 2009 Objectives) > > Topic 201.2 Compiling a kernel > make cloneconfig > make prepare-all > >I can't find any information on the above 2 flags. What do they do ? > >Regards >Andy _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
