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henrypootel

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 14

How do i compile the kernel?

Hi
I'm abit of a newbie to the whole compiling thing so i don't evenknow where to start here.
I've just installed arch on my eee-701 and everything is working fine. Now i want to run Wine though so i need to recompile the kernel. Following the wiki, i have downloaded the git kernel package from toofishes, and i've made the necessary changes to the kernelconfig, but i don't know what to do now.
I tried doing a 'makepkg -c' but it gives me an MD5 error on kernelconfig.
I have no idea where to go from here. please help.

aceofspades19

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Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 8

Re: How do i compile the kernel?

You don't ned to recompile your kernel to run wine, wine is a seperate user space app that has nothing to do with the kernel

string

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 286

Re: How do i compile the kernel?

henrypootel :: perhaps this can help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … n_with_ABS
aceofspades19 :: if you know you are right then perhaps you should correct this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … .27_kernel

aceofspades19

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Registered: 2008-11-16

Posts: 8

Re: How do i compile the kernel?

henrypootel :: perhaps this can help: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … n_with_ABS
aceofspades19 :: if you know you are right then perhaps you should correct this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … .27_kernel

Oh never mind, I didn't read that he got that special kernel, I just was thinking he was compiling a vanilla kernel, I guess I should learn to read

methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: How do i compile the kernel?

Hi
I'm abit of a newbie to the whole compiling thing so i don't evenknow where to start here.
I've just installed arch on my eee-701 and everything is working fine. Now i want to run Wine though so i need to recompile the kernel. Following the wiki, i have downloaded the git kernel package from toofishes, and i've made the necessary changes to the kernelconfig, but i don't know what to do now.
I tried doing a 'makepkg -c' but it gives me an MD5 error on kernelconfig.
I have no idea where to go from here. please help.

You are failing the md5sums check.

Check your PKGBUILD and make sure that you have the correct md5sums for the correct kernel sources and patch.

You could always skip the md5sums line if you feel confident that there is nothing wrong with your kernel sources, preset file, config file, and patch.... It's not the proper procedure but it can bypass a failed check if you have altered/edited a lot of files and don't know the correct md5sums for something like your new patch.

In your PKGBUILD:

md5sums=()

Last edited by methuselah (2008-11-16 16:18:43)

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Re: How do i compile the kernel?

makepkg -g

That command will regenerate the checksums, in a format you can replace the original checksums with. Easy peasy.

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henrypootel

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 14

Re: How do i compile the kernel?

a bit late in plying sorry, but just wanted to say that that worked. thanks everyone.