CVS kernel compile

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Tue Dec 21 10:48:33 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 20:02 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Ok, so I'm probably an idiot, but can anyone explain to me how to build
> the kernel out of CVS?

Well, you'd do:
	make <arch>

In your case, make ppc will be fine :)

> I've read the cvs.fedora.redhat.com website and done a CVS checkout.
> But when I do a 'make sources' it comes up with the following error
> after downloading the kernel tarball and merging a bunch of configs:

That only downloads the sources, probably not what you want

It should begin the 34.5MB download, nonetheless, and seems to work for
me (I just ran it)
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