About configuring a kernel, and CONFIG_PREEMPT (Solved)
Jonathan Ryshpan
jonrysh at pacbell.net
Wed Aug 26 18:17:28 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:23 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I need to rebuild the Fedora Kernel, something I haven't done for
> many years, to (hopefully) reduce the large number of xruns that I'm
> getting using jackd. The plan is to build a preemtable kernel.
> 3. The natural way to build the new kernel would seem to be to unpack
> the kernel source, using
> $ rpm --install kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.src.rpm
> copy in the .config file from the kernel-devel package, and then
> run
> rpmbuild -bb --short-circuit
> to generate the new kernel RPMs.
>
> Unfortunately the --short-circuit argument cannot be combined with
> the -bb argument. What's the best thing to do here?
There is an easy way to do this *for the kernel*, which is do whatever
modifications you want, say by using "$ make gconfig" and then to invoke
"$ make rpm".
Unfortunately, nothing like make rpm seems to be available for most
RPMs, which is a bother when you want to modify them.
jon
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