Building the kernel and kernel objects

[Dave Higton]

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> From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dave Higton
> Sent: 2010 February 10 09:43
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Building the kernel and kernel objects
> 
> I'm trying to build the kernel (although all I want at the moment is
> udf.ko) following the instructions at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel but udf.ko is 
> coming out
> at over 20 times the size of the distribution version.  I 
> presume it's a
> debug version?
> 
> How do I build something that is identical (other than maybe 
> the version
> string) to the distribution version I'm using?
> 
> Please be gentle with me; I'm a first time kernel builder (i.e. I've
> tried several times, but never yet succeeded).

Even more frustrating: while the kernel build was running, I
searched for udf.ko and found one that was of identical size
to the distribution version.  By the time I tried to run a
binary comparison, the file had been deleted.

The penultimate line in the build window was:

+ rm -rf
/home/my-username/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/kernel-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.abc42.fc
10.i386

so that's what did the damage.  Where and why does that line
exist?

Dave


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