From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oflmta01bw.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.21]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16QWux-0005F5-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:58:35 -0500 Received: from data.home ([144.135.24.84]) by oflmta01bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GPZOTA00.8OY for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 03:05:34 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-136-137-64.qld.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.137.64]) by bwmam06.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0h 47/2018025); 16 Jan 2002 02:58:29 Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16QWur-0000xt-00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:58:29 +1000 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 02:58:29 +1000 From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: A compiling procedure question. In-Reply-To: <20020113231212.GA12115@asmodean.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Greg. If you want to retain all answers though you need to edit .config > and do make oldconfig as it was stated. Simply doing make config will > blow away your existing .config and prompt you for everything again. This is *NOT!!!* correct. Yes, 'make config' will prompt you for everything again, but your current answers are given as defaults and hitting enter will retain them. I've gone through 'make config' a few times in the early days when I had to fix one answer. It's tedious but you can do it. 'make oldconfig' will only prompt you for new questions, and is designed to be run on a newer release kernel than the one it was previously run for (so you only get asked the new questions). 'make config' and 'make menuconfig' will edit your existing setup. AFAIK, the only commands that will blow away your .config are 'make mrproper' and 'rm .config'. Geoff.