Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Compiling information - totally [OT]
From: Rob (kudla_AT_pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 15:46:09 EEST
At 11:15 PM 9/18/01 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
>> telling you what the difference between
>> CONFIG_M686 and CONFIG_MK7 is,
>
>Have you tried make xconfig recently? Options are organized in
>categories and given reasonably readable names, and almost all of them
>have good descriptions you can read by clicking on "help", which often
>end with a statement like "If you don't know what this is, you can
>safely ignore this option," or "If unsure, say Y." I think the same
>information is available from make menuconfig as well.
I haven't built a kernel in 2 years, but I've never really had any trouble
doing it. I'm talking about non-technical users here, who never even want
to see a command line much less compile a program of any kind. That's why
I suggested it's okay to leave it to the distributors.
Rob
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