Bug#36075: libc6: Compiling Linux 2.2 under 2.0

["ERDI 'Cactus' Gergo" <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Also, what the hell are you doing compiling things as root?  The
> Makefiles expect that you are an unprivileged user except for the
> installation targets.
Of course this has no relevance in this case, since with the EXACT SAME
configuration, I was able to compile 2.2.5 when another 2.2.x kernel was
booted.

> 
> I'd try:
> 
> - Check versions of bash and make.  I have
> 
> ii  bash            2.02.1-1.4     The GNU Bourne Again SHell
> ii  make            3.77-6         The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii  bash            2.02.1-1.4     The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  make            3.77-6         The GNU version of the "make" utility.


> 
> - Nuke your source tree.  Download a clean copy of 2.2.5.  
Which is exactly what I did.

> 
> - Run `make mrproper' to ensure no stray files.  If the problem hasn't
> been fixed, it will recur at this point.
It is irrelevant what I try to make, since the parsing of the
Makefile itself is what halts make.



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