Re: Compiling Kernel Modules against the Kernel Source Tree

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@uga.edu>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:50:44AM +0200, Christoph Wirz wrote:
> > I have redhat 9.0 with kernel 2.4.20-8 running and the 
> > kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm installed. The source tree is under 
> > /usr/linux-2.4/
> 
> It is my understanding that the RH kernel-source rpms require you to run
> "make clean ; make dep bzImage modules" before you can expect to have a
> reasonable facsimile of red hat's kernel setup.

I've seen some RedHat kernels where I had to do 
  cp .config config.save && make mrproper && cp config.save .config 
... before anything would work.

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