Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:48:55 -0500 (EST) From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com> To: ML-linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Subject: [Announcement] Buildkernel 1.00 Good evening, all, I've just finished distributing buildkernel (*1) 1.00 to the distribution sites. This version adds bugfixes, preliminary support for silo, documentation updates, and support for compressed patches. Because the program can handle every step of the build process automatically, it's useful both to novices and the experts on this list that build kernels frequently. The home page, as always, is at http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/buildkernel/ RPM's and a tar are available. Feedback and patches are always welcome! Cheers, - Bill *1 Buildkernel is an intelligent shell script that automates the task of building a Linux kernel. For beginning users, it handles the process from beginning to end, prompting the user when they have to do something. Advanced users can use it to build multiple kernels with little effort. Buildkernel will download kernel and pcmcia source, remove unnecessary code, create symlinks, automatically patch the kernel, build the kernel, modules, and pcmcia modules (nicely), and install them to hard disk or floppy, running LILO as necessary. The program is released under the GPL. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place." - Douglas Adams, on Windows '95. (Courtesy of David Rysdam <drysdam@az.com>) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com). Mason, Buildkernel, named2hosts, and ipfwadm2ipchains are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/