2.4.21 fiasco

[Net Llama!]

On 06/14/03 20:12, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Quoth Net Llama!:
>> On 06/14/03 17:36, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> >Quoth Net Llama!:
>> >>i figured out why i can't build kernels on the one box (and yes, its all 
>> >>kernels):
>> >>http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2002-09/msg00070.html
>> >>
>> >>A few months back i updated the version of make that i had installed so 
>> >>that i could build the latest stable version of xawtv.  At the time 
>> >>3.80rc2 was the only version of make that would build xawtv.  Seems that 
>> >>3.80(-final) came out shortly afterwards.
>> >
>> >Ah. So, now things are fixed? See, Collins, it isn?t XFS, it?s make!
>> >Pftpftpfpt! ;-)
>> 
>> Well, i'm not having problems with 'make mrproper' & 'make xconfig' 
>> anymore.  I'm in the middle of 'make bzImage' at the moment, and things 
>> appear to be going well.  stupid make.
> 
> I've got 3.80 here. I'm not sure that I would have suspected make
> at all. I'd *like* to say I don't blame my tools when things go
> wrong, but it's more a matter that it just wouldn't occur to me
> that make would get broken like that. Not passing $(TOPDIR) (or
> other variables) down to sub-makes would break a lot of Makefiles
> out there.

Yea, i'd think so too, but this is the first thing that hasn't built. 
Thank $DEITY for Google, or i'd never have found the solution.

BTW, i'm already booted into 2.4.21.  The is the only way to fly.


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