How to compile a soft same as the version realeased by fedora?

[JD]

On 03/19/2011 08:03 PM, stan wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:57:30 -0700
> JD<jd1008 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Very interesting.
>> I have been building all my kernels with SMP disabled.
>> To wit, Here are the relevant config options in my
>> .config file for 2.6.38 (Mainline kernel), which I am
>> now running:
>> #
>> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
>> # Linux/i386 2.6.38.0-1 Kernel Configuration
>> # Wed Mar 16 23:19:36 2011
>> #
>> # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
>> CONFIG_X86_32=y
>> # CONFIG_X86_64 is not set
>> CONFIG_X86=y
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> #
>> # General setup
>> #
>> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
>> CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> # CONFIG_SMP is not set
> Thanks for these.  Next kernel I build, I'll have to try them.
> Well except for the X86_32 since I'm running x86_64.  And there
> have been some posts here saying the 2.6.38 kernel is a great
> performer for responsiveness, so I might install it on my F14.
I am running it now without any problems.

If you want to run without SMP, you have to build it
manually (i.e. not with rpmbuild).
Simply
download the kernel from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.38.tar.bz2
untar it
make xconfig
make
sudo make modules_install install

Cheers,

JD