missing asm-generic during make config

missing asm-generic during make config

[Karl]

Hello,

    I am a list newby and did look for this info, I apologize if my search
was just not good enough. I have installed 2.6.0 test 9 on 2 machines of
mine. One is a gateway Pentium II PC and the other is an IBM Netfinity
server. In both cases when I tried running make config I was given the
message (I apologize I went on and am paraphrasing) asm-generic/errno.h no
such file. In both cases I went in to the /usr/include directory and created
a symlink ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-generic asm-generic and it
worked. My question is did I miss a README file somewhere which would cover
this? I think I did all the steps as per instructions on both machines (they
certainly compiled nicely and run well). I did not include very much about
the configurations of my machines as I thought they would be unnecessary as
this is almost certainly a procedural error on my part and not a bug.

   I appreciate any answers to this and apologize if it is redundant.


Thank you,

Karl Tatgenhorst

Re: missing asm-generic during make config

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:07:10 -0500 "Karl" <ktatgenhorst@comcast.net> wrote:

| Hello,
| 
|     I am a list newby and did look for this info, I apologize if my search
| was just not good enough. I have installed 2.6.0 test 9 on 2 machines of
| mine. One is a gateway Pentium II PC and the other is an IBM Netfinity
| server. In both cases when I tried running make config I was given the
| message (I apologize I went on and am paraphrasing) asm-generic/errno.h no
| such file. In both cases I went in to the /usr/include directory and created
| a symlink ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-generic asm-generic and it
| worked. My question is did I miss a README file somewhere which would cover
| this? I think I did all the steps as per instructions on both machines (they
| certainly compiled nicely and run well). I did not include very much about
| the configurations of my machines as I thought they would be unnecessary as
| this is almost certainly a procedural error on my part and not a bug.
| 
|    I appreciate any answers to this and apologize if it is redundant.

That problem doesn't happen for me with a clean untar of test9.tar.bz2.
Maybe you should post all of the messages from 'make config'.

Alternatively, don't use 'make config'.  I can't quite imaging going
thru all of those prompts.  Try 'make defconfig; make menuconfig' instead.

--
~Randy

Re: missing asm-generic during make config

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Karl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>     I am a list newby and did look for this info, I apologize if my search
> was just not good enough. I have installed 2.6.0 test 9 on 2 machines of
> mine. One is a gateway Pentium II PC and the other is an IBM Netfinity
> server. In both cases when I tried running make config I was given the
> message (I apologize I went on and am paraphrasing) asm-generic/errno.h no
> such file.
Strange, not reproduible here.
Could you please try 'make V=1 config' and post the output.
Eventually in private mail, it may be several pages.

	Sam