Re: make errors (make clean, make menuconfig) make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.10 menuconfig

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Dec 27 2004 - 17:48:41 EST


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:53:54PM +0100, Georg Prenner wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am having a problem when executing "make menuconfig" on my fresh
> extracted 2.6.10 kernel.
>
> The error message is like this:
>
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.10 menuconfig
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.10 menuconfig
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.10 menuconfig
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 O=/usr/src/linux-2.6.10 menuconfig
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> I can only stop this neverending message with Strg+C and then it goes on
> like this:
> make[85]: *** [menuconfig] Interrupt
> make[84]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
> make[84]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[84]: *** wait: No child processes. Stop.
> make[83]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> make[82]: *** [menuconfig] Interrupt
> make[81]: *** [menuconfig] Interrupt
> ..
> .
> .
>
> All other Versions of Kernels work perfectly, I use Make 3.80, and my
> distro is slackware 10.0.
>
> Please help me i can't find anything usefull on the WEB.

Try executing make in the directory where you extract the source -
and not in the symlinked directory.

You need to untar the source first because kbuild has overwritten
your Makefile.

Sam
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