Re: [2.6.16rc2] compile error

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Friday 03 February 2006 15:04, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >You are hit be an outstanding issue with -rc1 + rc2.
>> >When you build as root you will alter /dev/null and in your case it
>> >became a regular file.
>>
>> That didn't hit me Sam, and I built it as root, running it right
>> now.
>
>First you need to do make clean or make menuconfig to trigger
> theerror. Second, not all /dev/null are affected. On my gentoo box it
> does not fail.

I forgot to add that my makeit script does a make clean as the 2nd step, 
the first is a version check to make sure I edited it correctly.  My 
ancient fingers don't always type what I think...

> Sam
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