From a0b81f62b8d27b0f59503da128ab589be82ee3e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nbd Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:16:45 +0000 Subject: document make kernel_menuconfig git-svn-id: svn://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/trunk@6311 3c298f89-4303-0410-b956-a3cf2f4a3e73 --- docs/build.tex | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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{}/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. -- cgit v1.2.3