Re: [kbuild 2/5] Dont use the running kernels config file by default

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 15:17:16 EST


Hi,

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> A user ran into the following problem: They grab a SuSE kernel-source
> package that is more recent than their running kernel. The tree under
> /usr/src/linux is unconfigured by default; there is no .config. User
> does a ``make menuconfig'', which gets its default values from
> /boot/config-$(uname -r). User tries to build the kernel, which doesn't
> work.

NAK. This isn't normally supposed to happen and it shouldn't be as bad
anymore as it used to be. Removing these path doesn't magically create a
working kernel.

bye, Roman
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