Compiling

[Duston, Hal]

Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com] wrote:
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> 
> One thing that's not at all clear is that if you change 
> kernels too much, your modules and library links change 
> too, and unless you have more than one complete trees, 
> you could end up unable to go back because your new 
> modules won't work with your old kernel, or the new 
> kernel wanted new libraries which over-wrote the old 
> ones.  Developers deal with this by having the whole 
> kernel/boot/module/library/compile tree in more than 
> one place and version, but there are places where this 
> has to be managed by manually switching links.

Some notes here.  The kernel is not dependent on any 
libraries in order to run.  I also never move the 
symlink in /usr/src to point to an newly built kernel 
tree.  Those symlinks and include files belong to glibc,
and _not_ the kernel.  I _always_ build my kernels in 
another location (/home/kernel/linux-x.y.x).

Also for modules, if you are building for a different
machine, you can do a INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$HOME, and the
make modules_install doesn't interfere with the modules
of the machine you are building on.

Hal Duston