I can never remember the exact steps and their order to compile a kernel, so I'm just playing around to make a little script that will stop me needing to . This is for a 2.4 kernel btw.

The way the it works is that I su and cd to the directory where the new kernel source has unpacked, then run the script. What happens then is pretty self explanatory. Here's what the script looks like at the moment:

The second line (ln -sf ./ /usr/src/linux) is intended to create a symlink /usr/src/linux which points to the current directory, but looking at the output of ls -l /usr/src it shows the symlink literally pointing to "./". Is there a way I can make it replace this with the actual path to the current directory?

Also, if there's an easy way to place the actual version number of the new kernel in the place of "NEW" in kernel-NEW etc. then that would be brilliant. In fact if there's a hard way it would be cool too .

Any help much appreciated.

I know a shell scripter so this solution isn't very elegant but it seems that you could use the $PWD environment variable. Or use pwd to get the current working directory and store it into a variable.

Thanks kooch, that's perfect for the symlink. I have no real idea what I'm doing but I have to start somewhere right .

I didn't examine either closely, but this reminded me there's also this one.

Subsequent discussion is also relevant.

PWD stands for Print Working Directory, and it is a environment variable that will always contain the full path of the current working directory. BTW "pwd" (lowercase) is a program that prints the working directory.

Try this to see what it does::
echo $PWD

Yep, and here is another of them scripts

Thanks guys