is Mandrake 8.1 finished?

[Warren Togami]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Mings" <jeffm at lava.net>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:11 PM
Subject: [luau] is Mandrake 8.1 finished?


> Thanks for the suggestion Warren!
>
> Is the 2.4.8-26mdk kernel screwed up too?  I haven't been using the 2.2
> kernel series for a while.
>
>    In an effort to kill the evil kapm-idled, I was trying to recompile a
> leaner kernel, but the modules refused to recompile.  After the usual
> make menuconfig in which I didn't change any of the default settings(I
> know, you guys all use the X version), make dep, make clean and make

I never use the X version, I prefer menuconfig too.

> bzImage, make modules resulted in several errors about a number of
> variables being undeclared.  I didn't bother with the modules_install or
> the rest.  I've got all of the necessary kernel support RPMs installed,
> but the modules won't compile out-of-the-box.
>     Is Mandrake 8.1 suffering from rush-to-market?
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeff Mings

Both of the default kernels shipped with 8.0 and 8.1 have a few minor
problems.  I just now tested compiling 2.4.13-pre1 and it works fine for me
when compiling the modules.

Did you save the new .config file?  Alternatively you can run "make
oldconfig" and it will ask you about only the new kernel options added.