Re: [uml-devel] arch/um/Makefile:100: *** missing separator. Stop.

[Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:49:40AM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> This is what I have done, not sure if anything wrong:
> 
> a.   mkdir obj;make oldconfig ARCH=um O=obj
> 
> This created one file in obj, but after that created infinite number
> of make -C processes running in the background.....I stopped that.
> 
> ps -ef and the following repeated MANY MANY TIMES:
> 
> root     32742 32658  0 01:13 pts/2    00:00:00 make -C
> /mnt/hd0/download/linux-2.6-latest KBUILD_SRC= oldconfig
> root     32745 32742  0 01:13 pts/2    00:00:00 make -C
> /mnt/hd0/download/linux-2.6-latest/obj
> /mnt/hd0/download/linux-2.6-latest/obj KBUILD_SRC=/mnt/hd0/dow

The only thing that makes any sense to me is that you have a severely
broken make.

> So, not okay.
> 
> b.   mkdir obj; make ARCH=um O=obj
> 
> As per instructed.....it works except it complained no config file (in
> obj directory), and suggested to do a mrproper for the current parent
> directory.   So I copied the .config to obj directory, make mrproper
> in parent directory, and then cd to obj and make oldconfig there, and
> then "make":
> 
> cp .config obj
> make mrproper
> cd obj

Why did you do this?  You're never supposed to cd to the object
directory and run make in it.

Also, you should have ARCH=um on all make commands, including
mrproper.

				Jeff

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