Re: Error 2: No rule to make target kernel/timeconst.pl

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 09:10:46 EST


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Konrad Vrba <konrad.vrba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/11/13, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:28:20PM +0200, Konrad Vrba wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I have following error while compiling new stable kernel 3.10:
>>>
>>> CC kernel/fork.o
>>> CC kernel/exec_domain.o
>>> CC kernel/panic.o
>>> CC kernel/printk.o
>>> CC kernel/cpu.o
>>> CC kernel/exit.o
>>> CC kernel/itimer.o
>>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/timeconst.pl', needed by
>>> `kernel/timeconst.h'. Stop.
>>> make: *** [kernel] Error 2
>>>
>>> Could somebody please advise how to fix this ?
>>
>> Can you save your config first, cleanup the build dir from kbuild stuff:
>>
>> make mrproper
>>
>> and then try building again?
>>
>> FWIW, 3.10 and later builds just fine here.
>
> cleaning up with 'make mrproper' does not help.
> I still get the same error

Do you still have build files around after "make mrproper"?
If this is a git clone, "git ls-files --others" will tell you.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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