question of compiling the kern

surfingbean

after compiling and installing the kernel once, i can no longer use "make xconfig"  or "make menuconfig". even i reinstalled the red hat system, it doesn't work neither.
thanks for help!
the messages of make are like below:


[root@bean linux-2.4]# make menuconfig
make: *** No rule to make target `include/linux/autoconf.h', needed by `include/linux/version.h'.  Stop.


[root@bean linux-2.4]# make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/scripts'
cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
KERNTYPE=`sed -n 's_^/\* Kernel type \(.*\) \*/_\1_p' /boot/kernel.h 2>/dev/null`; \
if [ -f configs/*-ERNTYPE.config ]; then \
        conf=`echo configs/*-ERNELTYPE.config`; \
        echo "set defaults \"\"" >> kconfig.tk; \
else \
        echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk; \
fi
echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
chmod 755 kconfig.tk
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/scripts'
wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
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Dragonfly

autoconf.h is generated by make menuconfig. so this problem is strange.

"make mrproper" and then "make menuconfig" should work. try "make config" to see if works

surfingbean

yeah, it is strange. i just reinstalled my system. make menuconfig worked, but not make xconfig. then i ran make mrproper. and after that, make menuconfig didn't work any more!
what's the problem? thanks!

surfingbean

once run make mrproper, i can no longer ran make menuconfig
then i reinstalled the system and reinstalled kernel-source, the pb was sovled.
but i still don't dare to run make mrproper

Dragonfly

from the make mrproper script u can see that it delete the autoconf.h. while i believe the make menuconfig should work. at least my kernel 2.4.20 is fine. what version of kernel code u use? i may have a try. i try at least 20 versions of linux kernel before from 2.2 to 2.4 to 2.5, never meet this before.

maso

ln /usr/src/linux-2.x.x linux
cd /usr/src/linux
rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
........
.........

enjoy it

cnhnln

我在RH9上，2.5.66，做了

rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi

这几步反倒出错了。当时没有删除asm linux scsi 这几个目录，只是改了个名，建了个连接。为什么？

Dragonfly

need not do this, mrproper will do these automatically. and for vanilla kernel from kernel.org. if u compile it the first time, u only need run make menuconfig. but if u change some important options, like smp support, u need run make mrproper or make distclean.

surfingbean

my kernel version is 2.4.7-10
normally "make menuconfig" should work after "make mrproper".
but on my machine, it's strange. maybe it's due to a hard ware pb.
any way, i think it's not such a big pb.

maso

cheunqming  : -)

Makefile(2.4.20)


mrproper: clean archmrproper
        find . \( -size 0 -o -name .depend \) -type f -print | xargs rm -f
        rm -f $(MRPROPER_FILES)
        rm -rf $(MRPROPER_DIRS)
        $(MAKE) -C Documentation/DocBook mrproper

distclean: mrproper
        rm -f core `find . \( -not -type d \) -and \
                \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
                -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \
                -o -name '.*.rej' -o -name '.SUMS' -o -size 0 \) -type f -print` TAGS tags


just "rm",try link /usr/include/asm scsi linux

Dragonfly

, i am wrong, some of that work is not done by make mrproper automatically, but why u need link that?

maso

fresh *.h(*.head)

haha

Dragonfly

what u mean? u always give so concise post and never have explanation.