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["Ed Harrison" <eharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Reply to message from Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 02 Sep
2004 14:58:02 +0200

> > > "make dep" isn't used in the 2.6 kernels. Use "make prepare" instead
> > 
> > Thanks, Anders.  That is the solution.  
> > 
> > In building a 2.6.X kernel, at what point would I use "make prepare"?  Same
> > place as make dep in earlier versions?
> 
> No, if you're building the kernel, you don't need to do anything apart
> from configuring it and running "make bzImage" (and of course "make
> modules" as needed). You only need "make prepare" when you have a kernel
> source and you want to "prepare" it in order to compile new modules or
> other things that need current kernel source configuration

Thanks for the information.

Ed Harrison
SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.7-vanilla
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