Re: Problem patching a kernel

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 25 Jul 2004 - 19:17:28 IDT


On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 06:54:23PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:

> Don't ask. Really. It is a very long story that has to do with HUGE
> text-based databases, Wine's inability to allocate memory below the 1GB
> line due to its reliance on mmap, and Windows Advanced Server. Do you
> still want to know?

Not really, but I'm not sure 4/4 will get you very far. ISTR wine
having some "issues" with it.

> Lot's of places. Mostly changes in the patch that were already in the
> vanilla source, but also some symbols removed.

Curious. I can take a look tomorrow when I'll have a normal net
connection. Can you email me the patch or a pointer to it seperately?
> >- find out where make-kpkg compiles the docs, and remove that (the
> >docs are not compiled by default- if make-kgkg compiles them, it is
> >doing it explicitly).
> >
> Tried that as well. failed.

Elaborate? is it not feasible to get make-kpkg to not compile the
docs?

> Do elaborate.

compile it by hand rather than via make-kpkg is an obvious first
step... which I see you've already done.

Cheers,
Muli

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