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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Kernel PKDBUILD question

In the kernel26 official PKGBUILD, what exactly does this line do?

. ./.config

Thanks.

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tomk

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Re: Kernel PKDBUILD question

It sources the kernel config file to make CONFIG_LOCALVERSION available in the next line.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Kernel PKDBUILD question

Ah that makes sense. Thanks!

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