Re: compile failure on 2.6.19

[Ken Moffat]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:27:26AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> On 12/31/06, Robin Cook <rcook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I am getting this error when I try to compile 2.6.19 and 2.6.19.1.
> >
> >I ran make mrproper and make menuconfig then ran make and got the below
> >error.
> >
> >  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
> >scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig
> >  CHK     include/linux/version.h
> >  UPD     include/linux/version.h
> >/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> >/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo '  CHK
> >include/linux/utsrelease.h'; mkdir -p include/linux/;     if [ `echo -n
> >"2.6.19.1 .file null .ident
> >GCC:(GNU)4.1.1 .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" | wc -c ` -gt 64 ];
> >then echo '"2.6.19.1 .file null .ident
> >GCC:(GNU)4.1.1 .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" exceeds 64
> >characters' >&2; exit 1; fi; (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"2.6.19.1 .file
> >null .ident GCC:(GNU)4.1.1 .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\";) <
> >include/config/kernel.release > include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp; if [ -r
> >include/linux/utsrelease.h ] && cmp -s include/linux/utsrelease.h
> >include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp; then rm -f
> >include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp; else echo '  UPD
> >include/linux/utsrelease.h'; mv -f include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp
> >include/linux/utsrelease.h; fi'
> >make: *** [include/linux/utsrelease.h] Error 2
> 
> I'd check /dev/null and make sure it's not a regular file this
> happened to me a while back
> 
> - David Brown

 If that doesn't fix it, I suspect it's a shell problem (e.g.
bash-3.{1,2} without all the patches).  I've seen a number of
issues with bash in the past few months, sometimes it highlighted
code that needed to be fixed, other times it tripped over
parentheses.

Ken
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