From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kartiksinghal@gmail.com (Kartik Singhal) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:41:29 +0530 Subject: make config errors while building kernel on Fedora 16 Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi I tried to build both linux mainline and linux-next on my Fedora 16 box. But in both cases I am running into errors in making the .config Here is a what is written (partial from top) to stdout: *** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig' init/Kconfig:237:warning: multi-line strings not supported kernel/irq/Kconfig:75:warning: multi-line strings not supported init/Kconfig:667:warning: multi-line strings not supported init/Kconfig:1216:warning: multi-line strings not supported init/Kconfig:1307:warning: multi-line strings not supported init/Kconfig:1308:warning: multi-line strings not supported And the following (partial from bottom) to stderr: drivers/vhost/Kconfig:10: syntax error drivers/vhost/Kconfig:9: unknown option "To" drivers/vhost/Kconfig:10: unknown option "be" drivers/lguest/Kconfig:12: syntax error drivers/lguest/Kconfig:11: unknown option "Note" drivers/lguest/Kconfig:12: unknown option "not" drivers/lguest/Kconfig:15: syntax error drivers/lguest/Kconfig:14: unknown option "If" lib/xz/Kconfig:59: syntax error lib/xz/Kconfig:58: unknown option "Unless" lib/xz/Kconfig:59: unknown option "and" lib/Kconfig:281: syntax error lib/Kconfig:280: unknown option "If" make[1]: *** [defconfig] Error 1 make: *** [defconfig] Error 2 I have verified that I have buildtools, kernel-devel and header packages. And last month I had built the kernel (mainline) for first time on Linux Mint. But here, probably, I am missing something completely. Google search didn't help much either. -- Kartik http://k4rtik.wordpress.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20120206/bcf3c02d/attachment.html