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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 10, Kernel
#88 Compile a Kernel
HACK
Each configuration program (apart from oldconfig) organizes options into a
series of categories. If you start at the first category and go through each sec-
tion, you can turn an option on, turn it off, or mark it to compile as a load-
able module. I recommend you turn on essential features that you will use
all the time and configure less essential features as loadable modules. For
example, you should compile support for your filesystems into the kernel,
but you might want to configure support for your webcam as a module. If
you are going to be dealing with USB devices, you should read “Perfect USB
Devices with Project Utopia”
[Hack #93].
Each configuration option has some help associated with it.
This is particularly useful in the graphical configuration
tools, where you can read the help while configuring your
kernel.
Compile the Code
Once you have configured the kernel, save your changes and quit. Now you
need to enter a series of commands to compile the code. The first command
creates of list of dependencies. This list is a preconfiguration step that sets
up various kernel configuration files based on your kernel configuration set-
tings. To create the dependency list, run this command:
foo@bar:~$ make dep
The next command cleans out any unwanted junk, such as temporary com-
pilation files that were collected from previous compiles or when you cre- ...
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