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Topic: Buildroot (compile kernel)

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Hello. Please help me with two things:

1. Howto call `make' to build kernel image after `make menuconfig_kernel'? I want to build only kernel image, don't want to build all software.
2. In `make menuconfig' I have put `*' asterisk for wanted software. But it still produce ipk packages for selected software. I want squashfs/jffs2 image with build in software.

Thanks!

As for question 2: Did you try the new image? As far as i know it's normal behavior. Extra software selected with (*) will be installed in the squashfs/jffs2 image, as well as an ipkg package.

Why not first do a make distclean to completely clean, i.e. delete/remove all the object/binary files, configuration files, etc., the root directory. Then, perform svn up and scripts/feeds upgrade to upgrade the source, and proceed to make package/symlinks, make menuconfigmake kernel_menuconfig, and make to start the compilation process.

mazilo wrote:

Why not first do a make distclean to completely clean, i.e. delete/remove all the object/binary files, configuration files, etc., the root directory. Then, perform svn up and scripts/feeds upgrade to upgrade the source, and proceed to make package/symlinks, make menuconfigmake kernel_menuconfig, and make to start the compilation process.

It's too long to wait for full build process.
`make' will compile all selected packages, it is about 4 hrs on my "Core 2 Quad".
I do same experiments with various kernel configs (can't find right config).
I need to compile often only kernel image.

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