[Sderby] my make won't make!

David Bottrill sderby at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sun Jul 13 22:14:00 2003


On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 19:21, Dave Williams wrote:
> On 13 Jul, James Gibbon <james.gibbon@virgin.net> wrote:
> 
> > Dave,
> 
> > It sounds like either [a] you aren't issuing the make command from
> > the directory where the relevant Makefile is located, or [b]
> > contrary to what's suggested by the instructions, the Makefile
> > doesn't contain a rule called 'oldconfig'.   If I was a gambler, my
> > money would be on [a] ... is there an instruction to cd to a
> > particular directory that you've missed?
> 
> > James
> 
> 
> Yes, I think it's [a]. I followed some generic instructions and was not in
> the right directory.

With SuSE it's a good idea to first of all issues the make command 

make cloneconfig

This is unique to SuSE and set's up a config that matches the current
running kernel.

I think you need to follow this with make dep etc..

-- 
David Bottrill <david@bottrill.org>