Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933209AbWLaUTB (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:19:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933210AbWLaUTA (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:19:00 -0500 Received: from queue04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.58]:29893 "EHLO queue04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933209AbWLaUTA convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:19:00 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1010 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:18:59 EST Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:02:05 +0000 From: Ken Moffat To: David Brown Cc: Robin Cook , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: compile failure on 2.6.19 Message-ID: <20061231200205.GA9055@deepthought> References: <1167585932.3730.9.camel@localhost> <9c21eeae0612311027p17737cc0q765aca18fe22fd38@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c21eeae0612311027p17737cc0q765aca18fe22fd38@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2053 Lines: 47 On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:27:26AM -0800, David Brown wrote: > On 12/31/06, Robin Cook wrote: > >I am getting this error when I try to compile 2.6.19 and 2.6.19.1. > > > >I ran make mrproper and make menuconfig then ran make and got the below > >error. > > > > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf > >scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig > > CHK include/linux/version.h > > UPD include/linux/version.h > >/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > >/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK > >include/linux/utsrelease.h'; mkdir -p include/linux/; if [ `echo -n > >"2.6.19.1 .file null .ident > >GCC:(GNU)4.1.1 .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" | wc -c ` -gt 64 ]; > >then echo '"2.6.19.1 .file null .ident > >GCC:(GNU)4.1.1 .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" exceeds 64 > >characters' >&2; exit 1; fi; (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"2.6.19.1 .file > >null .ident GCC:(GNU)4.1.1 .section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\";) < > >include/config/kernel.release > include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp; if [ -r > >include/linux/utsrelease.h ] && cmp -s include/linux/utsrelease.h > >include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp; then rm -f > >include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp; else echo ' UPD > >include/linux/utsrelease.h'; mv -f include/linux/utsrelease.h.tmp > >include/linux/utsrelease.h; fi' > >make: *** [include/linux/utsrelease.h] Error 2 > > I'd check /dev/null and make sure it's not a regular file this > happened to me a while back > > - David Brown If that doesn't fix it, I suspect it's a shell problem (e.g. bash-3.{1,2} without all the patches). I've seen a number of issues with bash in the past few months, sometimes it highlighted code that needed to be fixed, other times it tripped over parentheses. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/