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LinuxQuestions is not the place to turn to when you're looking for a step by step guide. Those can be found in abundant numbers on the internet. When you encounter trouble following a guide, that's when you turn to LQ for answers and solutions. That being said, have a look at this site, plenty of guides there: Kernel Compilation, step by step..
let me tell u what my problem is::
i have been given a project in which i have to develop a customized linux distribution for my college on which all the device drivers for hyperterminal, video conferencing and other communication softwares which generally run on windows should run on my linux os also..this is the aim of my project..
problem::
i have very less knowledge on linux..i have just started few day back working on linux..regarding my first linux compilation,,i am using boss(bharat operating sysytem)2.6.39 as my base os,,i downloaded linux kernel 3.4 latest and have configured it.after that i have compiled gmp, mpc, mpfr..but gcc 4.7.0 is not getting installed on the os. i am getting the error cannot compute suffix....i have tried everything for the last three days but the same error is coming up again and again..till the time gcc will not get compiled on my system i will not be able to build bzimage of my new kernel .
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