From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755575AbYAGKMm (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:12:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754226AbYAGKMf (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:12:35 -0500 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:52368 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753961AbYAGKMf (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:12:35 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:12:35 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andy Whitcroft , Balbir Singh Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24-rc7 Build Failure on headers_install Message-ID: <20080107101235.GA13609@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <4781E75B.3020307@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4781E75B.3020307@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:18:27PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi, > > The make allyesconfig build fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with the following > error > > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK include/linux/compile.h > CHK include/linux/version.h > make[2]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date. > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `|', needed by `asm-generic'. Stop. > make[1]: *** [headers_install] Error 2 > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2 Which make version are you using - it looks like a make bug. Did this occur with an older kernel or has this behaviour just started? To get further you can disable "headers check" in kernel hacking menu but we need to find out why it fails for you. Note: '|' is used to say that a prerequisite is 'order only' in scripts/Makefile.headersinst Sam