diff options
| author | Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> | 2007-02-16 17:16:45 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> | 2007-02-16 17:16:45 +0000 |
| commit | 20db49bf2c9e116bb8da9157facf9527a745452b (patch) | |
| tree | 2bbb4cdd1908183efd90dd6b331caf934bfc4cf8 /docs | |
| parent | 8afbc2d617344df50a13ad9871067225530715db (diff) | |
| download | upstream-20db49bf2c9e116bb8da9157facf9527a745452b.tar.gz upstream-20db49bf2c9e116bb8da9157facf9527a745452b.tar.bz2 upstream-20db49bf2c9e116bb8da9157facf9527a745452b.zip | |
document make kernel_menuconfig
SVN-Revision: 6311
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/build.tex | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/build.tex b/docs/build.tex index fed0ca281e..1335c81329 100644 --- a/docs/build.tex +++ b/docs/build.tex @@ -143,7 +143,15 @@ Similar to the linux kernel config, almost every option has three choices, \end{itemize} After you've finished with the menu configuration, exit and when prompted, save your -configuration changes. To begin compiling the firmware, type "\texttt{make}". By default +configuration changes. + +If you want, you can also modify the kernel config for the selected target system. +simply run "\texttt{make kernel\_menuconfig}" and the build system will unpack the kernel sources +(if necessary), run menuconfig inside of the kernel tree, and then copy the kernel config +to \texttt{target/linux/\textit{<platform>}/config} so that it is preserved over +"\texttt{make clean}" calls. + +To begin compiling the firmware, type "\texttt{make}". By default OpenWrt will only display a high level overview of the compile process and not each individual command. |