Re: [2.6.16rc2] compile error

[Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>]

Alexander Fieroch <fieroch@web.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I can't compile kernel 2.6.16-rc[12] and get the following error:
>
> # make
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo '  CHK     include/linux/version.h';
> mkdir -p include/linux/;        if [ `echo -n "2.6.16-rc2 .file null
> .ident GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060128(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-8) .section
> .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" | wc -c ` -gt 64 ]; then echo '"2.6.16-rc2
> .file null .ident GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060128(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-8)
> .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" exceeds 64 characters' >&2; exit 1;
> fi; (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"2.6.16-rc2 .file null .ident
> GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060128(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-8) .section
> .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\"; echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE `expr 2
> \\* 65536 + 6 \\* 256 + 16`; echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a)
> << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))'; ) < /usr/src/linux-2.6.16rc2/Makefile >
> include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r include/linux/version.h ] && cmp -s
> include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; then rm -f
> include/linux/version.h.tmp; else echo '  UPD
> include/linux/version.h'; mv -f include/linux/version.h.tmp
> include/linux/version.h; fi'
> make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2

look at /dev/null. on my system it keeps getting replaced by a regular
file. not really sure where the bug is, but 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV null'
will recreate the null character device and then the compilation will
proceed normally.

--alex--

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