Re: Patches vs complete tarballs....

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Aug 1998 11:28:11 GMT

Followup to: <KETIL-87n297n9t5.fsf@tosca.infotek.no>
By author: ketil@ii.uib.no
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> But either the linux-2.1.115.tar.gz at ftp.funet.fi is slightly broken,
> or I somehow managed to screw up a simple tar command (or the subsequent
> steps - copying in the old .config, and make dep clean zlilo modules\
> modules_install, after cleansing the makefile of SMP and /boot stuff.)
>
> So, as I said, it's not a problem for me, I'm just a bit puzzled that it
> happened.
>

After copying in an old .config you *MUST* do "make oldconfig"!!!!!

-hpa

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