Re: missing asm-generic during make config

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:07:10 -0500 "Karl" <ktatgenhorst@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| Hello,
| 
|     I am a list newby and did look for this info, I apologize if my search
| was just not good enough. I have installed 2.6.0 test 9 on 2 machines of
| mine. One is a gateway Pentium II PC and the other is an IBM Netfinity
| server. In both cases when I tried running make config I was given the
| message (I apologize I went on and am paraphrasing) asm-generic/errno.h no
| such file. In both cases I went in to the /usr/include directory and created
| a symlink ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-generic asm-generic and it
| worked. My question is did I miss a README file somewhere which would cover
| this? I think I did all the steps as per instructions on both machines (they
| certainly compiled nicely and run well). I did not include very much about
| the configurations of my machines as I thought they would be unnecessary as
| this is almost certainly a procedural error on my part and not a bug.
| 
|    I appreciate any answers to this and apologize if it is redundant.

That problem doesn't happen for me with a clean untar of test9.tar.bz2.
Maybe you should post all of the messages from 'make config'.

Alternatively, don't use 'make config'.  I can't quite imaging going
thru all of those prompts.  Try 'make defconfig; make menuconfig' instead.

--
~Randy
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