Question/help re: themake scripts in 2.6.36

Question/help re: themake scripts in 2.6.36

[JD]

I have compiled 2.6.36 (i686) without any problems.
Since then, I have decided to change a couple of
config variables (using xconfig).
When done, running make all
causes the make scripts to stop compilation after building
a few objects, and spawn a shell.
Since I have no idea what to do in that shell, I exit
that shell, and the compilaton continues.
This takes place 3 times before compilation is complete.

Now, when I type make modules_install install,
only modules_install is done. /boot does not get
populated and /boot/grub/grub.conf is unchanged.

The currently installed and running 2.6.36-1
went through a similar scenario during build,
but at least install did work.
Now the install does not work.
Befor the present build attempt,
I had edited the Makefile to change the EXTRAVERSION to -2
in order not to clobber the installed  2.6.36-1

Could someone tell me what to do to force the install in /boot?
/lib/modules does have 2.6.36-2.fc13.i686 fully populated.

Thanx,

JD

Re: Question/help re: themake scripts in 2.6.36

[Américo Wang]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:51:51PM -0700, JD wrote:
> I have compiled 2.6.36 (i686) without any problems.
> Since then, I have decided to change a couple of
> config variables (using xconfig).


You can use 'make oldconfig'.

> When done, running make all
> causes the make scripts to stop compilation after building
> a few objects, and spawn a shell.
> Since I have no idea what to do in that shell, I exit
> that shell, and the compilaton continues.
> This takes place 3 times before compilation is complete.
>


What? How can make spawn a shell...

Can you copy and paste what you see and what you get
from your terminal?

> Now, when I type make modules_install install,
> only modules_install is done. /boot does not get
> populated and /boot/grub/grub.conf is unchanged.
>
> The currently installed and running 2.6.36-1
> went through a similar scenario during build,
> but at least install did work.
> Now the install does not work.
> Befor the present build attempt,
> I had edited the Makefile to change the EXTRAVERSION to -2
> in order not to clobber the installed  2.6.36-1
>
> Could someone tell me what to do to force the install in /boot?
> /lib/modules does have 2.6.36-2.fc13.i686 fully populated.
>

Since you are using Fedora, you can try grubby or new-kernel-pkg.

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Re: Question/help re: themake scripts in 2.6.36

[Américo Wang]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:45:08PM -0800, JD wrote:
>On 11/07/2010 12:42 AM, Américo Wang wrote:
>>On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:51:51PM -0700, JD wrote:
>>>I have compiled 2.6.36 (i686) without any problems.
>>>Since then, I have decided to change a couple of
>>>config variables (using xconfig).
>>
>>You can use 'make oldconfig'.
>>
>>>When done, running make all
>>>causes the make scripts to stop compilation after building
>>>a few objects, and spawn a shell.
>>>Since I have no idea what to do in that shell, I exit
>>>that shell, and the compilaton continues.
>>>This takes place 3 times before compilation is complete.
>>>
>>
>>What? How can make spawn a shell...
>>
>>Can you copy and paste what you see and what you get
>>from your terminal?
>I have attached make.out.xz
>(compressed with lzma).
>
>Look for exit
>because I had to exit the shell that gets forked in order to
>let make continue.
>

Well, that is not due to make, it is because you
used su -c 'make install modules_install'. :)

Try su -c 'make install && make modules_install'.