Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel without oldconfig

[Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>]

On 08/15/2010 05:32 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:45:06 Marc Joliet wrote:
>> Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:15:57 -0400
>>
>> schrieb Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>:
>>> Is there any way to run genkernel without it running the oldconfig
>>> command?  I can work around the issue by saving my .config file to a
>>> different name, then using --xconfig and loading the saved file but it
>>> would be nice to just tell it not to alter the existing .config file. 
>>> It may be that I'm just missing it but man pages and Google have not
>>> provided a solution.
>>
>> Yes, the configuration file has an appropriate option:
>>
>> # Run 'make oldconfig' before compiling this kernel?
>> OLDCONFIG="no"
>>
>> HTH
> 
> It did indeed help.  I was looking for a command line argument.  Didn't even 
> think of the config file.  Thank you!

I've never seen this before, either. Thanks for the tip, Marc.

Daniel, how do you use genkernel? I've found that I need to run "make
oldconfig" or, my preference, "make silentoldconfig" by hand before I
ever use genkernel. I copy my old .config to the new kernel directory,
run silentoldconfig, then I run genkernel. Is that the problem you're
facing or do you see changes between invocations of genkernel?