Re: [gentoo-user] re: make distclean

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:30:52PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade
> 
> 
>       Sanitize sources
> 
> If you just want to rebuild the current kernel, you need sometimes to
> sanitize the kernel sources:
> 
> |root # ||make distclean|
> 
> Interesting option. Wish it had said it would nuke my .config as well.
> Just finished setting it up. Thought I'd follow the advice given before
> rebuilding the kernel. Should've backed up the .config file prior to
> running 'make distclean'.
> 
> Lesson learnt. :'(
 
There should be a .config in "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source/.config" and if
you look under /lib/modules/ you should see a directory for each kernel
version you've installed with a .config.
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