Re: Building kernels on a different machine

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Nenad Antonic wrote:
> It is quite convenient to build debian kernel packages on one machine,
> which has all the neccessary code, sources and automation, while they
> are being installed on different machines. 
>
> The described fglrx-build.sh script, a well as the procedure suggested
> by ATI, is geared towards building on the target machine. [...]

Yes; the script and the instructions on my page are intended to help 
inexperienced users getting up and running without too much trouble, and 
that doesn't usually entail building and distributing packages on 
multiple machines.

If you want a quite automatic build script that takes care of kernel and 
modules, look for the "build-kernel" script here:
  http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/quickref.html

I do as follows: after downloading a new kernel (say, Linux 2.6.6), I 
prepare a few directories for the architectures I use, like this:
  cp -al linux-2.6.6 linux-2.6.6+athlon
  cp -al linux-2.6.6 linux-2.6.6+686-smp

Then for each directory I copy the .config from the previous kernel 
version and launch the "build-kernel" script above that takes care of 
configuring and building the kernel and all the modules in 
/usr/src/modules, setting the various make-kpkg options appropriately.

This means that the plain kernel source tree is left untouched.

I'm tweaking the script and the process quite often, so it's a work in 
progress, but it Works For Me(tm).

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Ciao, Flavio