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Compilation error with 5.2.14

Good day!

Recently, I got an interest in the Linux kernel, so I took the latest stable version (5.2.14) from kernel.org and tried to compile it with the default configuration. After running

Code:

make mrproper && make defconfig && make

i get an error:

Code:

/bin/sh: kernels/linux-5.2.14: No such file or directory

make: *** [Makefile:1726: tools/objtool] Error 127

I use Arch Linux and I have all the necessary tools described on archwiki installed.
Can someone help me? What am i doing wrong?

It looks like you haven't started in a full linux kernel install. Here's what the top source directory should look like

Code:

bash-5.0$ ls /usr/src/linux-4.19.59

COPYING        Kbuild        MAINTAINERS  arch  config-4.19.59  firmware  init    lib  samples  sound  virt

CREDITS        Kconfig        Makefile    block  crypto            fs        ipc    mm  scripts  tools

Documentation  LICENSES  README      certs  drivers            include  kernel  net  security  usr

bash-5.0$ du -sh

916M        .

There's been a kernel made in that, so it's bigger than usual. But it's a several hundred megs, and they never get smaller. cd to /usr/src/linuv-5.2.14, and try there.

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Originally Posted by business_kid (Post 6036389)

It looks like you haven't started in a full linux kernel install. Here's what the top source directory should look like

Code:

bash-5.0$ ls /usr/src/linux-4.19.59

COPYING        Kbuild        MAINTAINERS  arch  config-4.19.59  firmware  init    lib  samples  sound  virt

CREDITS        Kconfig        Makefile    block  crypto            fs        ipc    mm  scripts  tools

Documentation  LICENSES  README      certs  drivers            include  kernel  net  security  usr

bash-5.0$ du -sh

916M        .

There's been a kernel made in that, so it's bigger than usual. But it's a several hundred megs, and they never get smaller. cd to /usr/src/linuv-5.2.14, and try there.

That helped. I wonder, why than the majority of tutorials on the Internet describe the kernel compilation in the home directory?