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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig ?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:17:11
Message-Id: CAOdo=SxgnMN9pz=H8p8NhX2Gj2OrgnWHzrES5bcgh+MQNHjO3w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig ? by James
1 On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:42 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >>>
3 >>> 1) #make silentoldconfig
4 >>> 2) #make olddefconfig
5 >>> 3) #make oldconfig
6 >>>
7 >>> (3) still seems to work. (2) uses defaults so I do not want that,
8 >>> but what about (1)? What's the difference between (1) and (3) ?
9 >>> Where do I read about them of find the sources?
10 >
11 > I'd still like to look at the sources for these scripts, if anybody
12 > knows where they are located, I have not had any luck locating the
13 > sources for oldconfig
14 >
15 > I thought they might be in /usr/src/linux/scripts/ but no? No hints in
16 > the top level Makefile either. One of the Gentoo GSoC projects is to
17 > rework kernel building too. Now I'm stoked to read the
18 > scripts/makefile for oldconfig and such....
19
20 Perhaps:
21 /usr/src/linux/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
22 /usr/src/linux/scripts/kconfig/conf.c

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