Re: I have an Indy and want to help...

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> And one question, how do I kompile the kernel, if I made make menuconfig, I
> would get only to menu points, load config and save config. This hapends
> with kerne-source-2.4.7 installed by apt and linux-2.4.8 from
> ftp.kernel.org. So. what I have to do do make my own kernel?

Could it be that this caused the problem for you as well?

rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-mips asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joey/tmp/linux-2.4.5/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joey/tmp/linux-2.4.5/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/mips/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsingscripts/Menuconfig: line 1: 24723 Bus error               awk "$1"
Awk died with error code 138. Giving up.
.....scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu12: line 109: syntax error: unexpected end of file
......scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu18: line 119: syntax error: unexpected end of file
..scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu2: line 112: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu2: line 113: syntax error: unexpected end of file
.scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu20: line 151: syntax error: unexpected end of file
......scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu26: line 149: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu26: line 150: syntax error: unexpected end of file
........scripts/Menuconfig: ./MCmenu8: line 76: syntax error: unexpected end of file
.done.


Use make config || make oldconfig || vi .config

menuconfig has too much menues anyway.

Regards,

	Joey

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