Re: 2.5.21 make problem

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, John covici wrote:

> Cleaning up (boot)
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/arch/i386/boot'
> Cleaning up
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/Documentation/DocBook'
> Cleaning up (DocBook)
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/Documentation/DocBook'
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/arch/i386/boot'
> gcc -E  -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA -DRAMDISK=512 bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s
> as -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
> ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/include/linux/compile.h', needed by `bsetup.s'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/arch/i386/boot'
> make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

What's the command line you're using? It seems like you have "make clean" 
in there, no big surprise that that breaks.

> on Saturday 06/15/2002 Kai Germaschewski([e-mail]) wrote
>  > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, John covici wrote:
>  > 
>  > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/arch/i386/boot'
>  > > gcc -E  -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA -DRAMDISK=512 bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s
>  > > as -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s
>  > > ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect
>  > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-2.5.21/include/linux/compile.h', needed by `bsetup.s'.  Stop.
>  > 
>  > I suppose that means that compile.h does not exist at that location, for 
>  > whichever reason. If you do "make" (or just "make SUBDIRS=init"), it 
>  > should be generated. Does it output something something like "Generating 
>  > ../include/linux/compile.h"?
>  > 
>  > Is scripts/mkcompile_h executable?

You applied patches which affect the build without mentioning them. You
didn't answer a single question I asked. That makes it hard to help you.

--Kai