[NCLUG] Problem recompiling Redhat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:22:07PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:57:36PM -0700, Gabriel L Somlo wrote:
>>         cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
>>         make mrproper
>> 	cp configs/kernel-2.4.18-i686.config ./.config
>
>you need to make oldconfig here.

Correct, otherwise the configuration isn't propogated into the kernel
source and your build will fail with a long, ugly error message.

Sean
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