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Using make menuconfig

Using make menuconfig - CentOS Tutorial

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Using make menuconfig

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- [Instructor] Let's talk about using make menuconfig, to configure all in x-Kernel. The make menuconfig interface gives you a list of options of what you want to configure, and you can drill down within those options to greater and greater detail. You move around in make menuconfig with your arrow keys and the enter key, not your mouse. Make menuconfig is not a mouse oriented GUI. On the bottom of the make menuconfig interface, are things like help and exit, and you move between those with your right and left buttons. You use the enter key to drill down into a sub menu, and you can use escape escape to go back up a level. For configuration options with make menuconfig, you'll see in front of an option either angle brackets or square brackets. When there are angle brackets, that means you have three choices. You can put an asterisk in there, that means that option will be statically linked and will be in the kernel image…

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