Gentoo problem compiling modules

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 06:53:07 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> 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!

Yep, "change" was a little too much shorthand.  "change" means, as I
posted earlier,  make xxxconfig, load a saved config file, make changes,
save the config to your saved config file, save to .config by exiting. 
Sorry for the confusion.


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