rebuilding kernel for the first time

[Ben Pfaff]

"Barb Ebel" <ebelbarb@msu.edu> writes:

> I've just installed Redhat 7.0 and I'm trying to rebuild the kernel just for
> the experience, but I keep getting error messages that I don't understand.
> I'd really appreciate if someone would cruise on over to
> http://www.msu.edu/user/ebelbarb/compile.html and see what I'm doing wrong.

Make sure that this is a "fresh" kernel tree.  Save the contents
of .config somewhere, run "make mrproper", then restore .config
and re-run the compile.  The errors you received tend to indicate
(to me, and I'm not a kernel expert) that the configuration was
changed from SMP to UP, or vice versa, without properly cleaning
up the effects of that change.
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