Linux 2.4.21

[Net Llama!]

This is going to hell rather quickly.  So i finally applied what looks 
to be the correct XFS patch, and I still can't get as far as 'make 
mrproper' without something blowing up.  This is the same box that i've 
built every previous 2.4.x kernel since 2.4.0, without a hitch.

[root at hal linux]# make mrproper
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/boot'
rm -f tools/build
rm -f setup bootsect zImage compressed/vmlinux.out
rm -f bsetup bbootsect bzImage compressed/bvmlinux.out
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
rm -f vmlinux bvmlinux _tmp_*
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch/i386/boot'
find . \( -name '*.[oas]' -o -name core -o -name '.*.flags' \) -type f 
-print \
| grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs rm -f
rm -f kernel/ksyms.lst include/linux/compile.h vmlinux System.map .tmp* 
drivers/char/consolemap_deftbl.c drivers/video/promcon_tbl.c 
drivers/char/conmakehash drivers/char/drm/*-mod.c drivers/pci/devlist.h 
drivers/pci/classlist.h drivers/pci/gen-devlist drivers/zorro/devlist.h 
drivers/zorro/gen-devlist drivers/sound/bin2hex drivers/sound/hex2hex 
drivers/atm/fore200e_mkfirm drivers/atm/{pca,sba}*{.bin,.bin1,.bin2} 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_gram.c 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_gram.h 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_macro_gram.c 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_macro_gram.h 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_macro_scan.c 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_scan.c 
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicdb.h drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm/y.tab.h 
drivers/scsi/53c700_d.h net/khttpd/make_times_h net/khttpd/times.h submenu*
rm -rf modules
make -C Documentation/DocBook clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/Documentation/DocBook'
Makefile:200: /Rules.make: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/Documentation/DocBook'
make: *** [clean] Error 2

After some digging it appears that the problem is that the $TOPDIR 
variable (referenced in various Makefiles) is never getting set and/or 
passed somewhere.  $TOPDIR looks like it should be /usr/src/linux, and 
if i do 'export TOPDIR=/usr/src/linux', then 'make mrproper' completes 
successfully.  Alternatively, if i just add 'TOPDIR=/usr/src/linux' to 
the top of /usr/src/linux/Documentation/DocBook, 'make mrproper' also 
completes successfully.

Unfortunately, this variable craziness just continues to propogate down 
hill, as when i do 'make xconfig' :

[root at hal linux]# make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
`/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/arch//config.in', needed by `kconfig.tk'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts'
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

Its blowing up here because the $ARCH variable isn't getting passed 
either.  Now i could play the game of hacking that variable into place 
too, but it just continues to spiral down.

So i'm really wondering what the hell is broken here?


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L. Friedman                       	       netllama at linux-sxs.org
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: 		    http://netllama.ipfox.com

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