Gentoo problem compiling modules

[Brett I. Holcomb]

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" <brettholcomb at charter.net> 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

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