[ale] Make

[John Mills]

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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Joseph A Knapka wrote:

> > tom hawks wrote:
> > I have a question, I am using my freinds Redhat 6.2 and I want to
> > update his kernel. When I type make menuconfig or xconfig, I get:
 
> > make: ***No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop.

> You must (a) unpack the kernel source and (b) cd into
> the top-level kernel source directory, before attempting
> "make menuconfig". So:
> 
> > cd /usr/src
> # Save the existing kernel sources, if any...
> > mv linux linux.old
> # Unpack new sources; this will create the ./linux dir.

In my examples it would create: ./linux-2.4.18/...

> > tar xzvf linux-2.4.18.tgz

# ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.18 ./linux

And possibly (depending on how it was linked before):

# cd /usr/include
# ln -s /usr/src/linux/include ./include
# cd /usr/src

> > cd linux
> > make menuconfig
> ought to work.

Now it may have a better chance.

 - John Mills


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