Re: Question/help re: themake scripts in 2.6.36

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:45:08PM -0800, JD wrote:
>On 11/07/2010 12:42 AM, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
>>On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:51:51PM -0700, JD wrote:
>>>I have compiled 2.6.36 (i686) without any problems.
>>>Since then, I have decided to change a couple of
>>>config variables (using xconfig).
>>
>>You can use 'make oldconfig'.
>>
>>>When done, running make all
>>>causes the make scripts to stop compilation after building
>>>a few objects, and spawn a shell.
>>>Since I have no idea what to do in that shell, I exit
>>>that shell, and the compilaton continues.
>>>This takes place 3 times before compilation is complete.
>>>
>>
>>What? How can make spawn a shell...
>>
>>Can you copy and paste what you see and what you get
>>from your terminal?
>I have attached make.out.xz
>(compressed with lzma).
>
>Look for exit
>because I had to exit the shell that gets forked in order to
>let make continue.
>

Well, that is not due to make, it is because you
used su -c 'make install modules_install'. :)

Try su -c 'make install && make modules_install'.

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