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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:17:01 -0500
From:      Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com>
To:        "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
Cc:        Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@wanadoo.es>
Subject:   Re: I do not understand kernel modules
Message-ID:  <20050121171701.GA37944@gardnerbell.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20050121154625.A2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
References:  <41EFA65E.80307@wanadoo.es> <20050120125840.M1382@wcborstel.nl> <41F044F4.9070706@wanadoo.es> <20050121134217.GA77496@gardnerbell.ca> <20050121154625.A2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>

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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 03:57:35PM +0100 Colin J. Raven wrote:
> On Jan 21 at 08:42, Gardner Bell wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:55:32AM +0100 Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> >> Jorn Argelo wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:38:54 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, I understand now. The problem is that my old pentium machine takes
> >> very long time to compile all the modules even if I am not going to use
> >> them. I would like to compile only the modules I use, to reduce
> >> compiling time. Is that possible?
> >>
> > Refer to the option MODULES_OVERRIDE in man make.conf(5) if you wish
> > to only compile certain modules.
> 
> Thanks for this! I'm approaching a critical  "rite of passage" today 
> conincidentally, by recompiling my kernel and getting rid of stuff I 
> don't need.
> Doing what you suggest sounds eminently sensible, yet I have to ask a 
> followup question...
> 
> How do you specify a particular make.conf that should *only* be used for 
> recompiling kernels?
> 
I'm not too sure if one can specify another make.conf file or not.
What are your reasons for wanting to do so?

Gardner



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