kernel error
 

Down loaded slack current and did custom install.
Now I want to rebuild kernel so I uncommented
the line,
export INSTALL_PATH=/boot

Then I did;
root@slack-n-stein:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
at first I got this error;
Makefile:554: *** missing separator. Stop.
so I went to line 554 added a space then I got this error
Makefile:278: *** missing separator. Stop.
Here is that line;
$(CPP) $(AFLAGS) $(AFLAGS_KERNEL) -traditional -o $*.s $<

what is it supposed to say?

I've never had errors like the ones you are reporting. Did you download a full kernel source?

I'd go to http://www.kernel.org and download a full kernel source of your choosing. To download full kernel source click on the "F" link and save to disk. Then just extract it (I use "bzip2 -d" and then "tar -xvf" on the file.

If you knew this already, sorry. Was just trying to offer what I could since you still had 0 replies when I saw your thread.

Missing separator means that there is a syntax error in the Makefile. Any command must be preceded by a tab in a Makefile. If you have mcedit installed, go to that line and push tab until it shows a red bar in front of the line (can't miss it).

That seemed to be the problem, missing tabs
but while I was going though the whole makefile (seems like
a lot of tabs are missing) I came across this error

Makefile:355: *** commands commence before first target. Stop.

what do I do about that?

Is there a place I could download a good copy of the makefile?

what kernel are you talking about ?
if i have it , i can mail it to you ....

egag

Kernel 2.4.28
Thanks

well...i've got 6 kernel-sources but not that one.
sorry.
maybe anybody else...... ?

egag

If I download a new kernel, say, what ever the latest one is,
will that have a new make file? I guess it would have too...correct?
I was thinking of trying 2.6.10 any thoughts?

good idea....
if you get the full sources, all will be there.

you could start with the config-file of the old kernel ( gives some errors, not important.)
then configure it with " $make xconfig ".
that's a nice gui with comment's and advice .

egag

May I suggest you to not open the makefile with a text editor configured to replace all TAB by
spaces like some option in Kwrite. Look at your text editor config/preferences

I'm running 2.4.28 now and didn't have any problems compiling. Go to www.kernel.org and get the full 2.4.28 sources. put it somewhere like /home/you/kernels. unzip it and go to your old folder and copy the .config to the new sources.

do make menuconfig --> exit --> yes to save --> make dep.
then you can make the 2 targets.

"May I suggest you to not open the makefile with a text editor configured to replace all TAB by
spaces like some option in Kwrite. Look at your text editor config/preferences"

Thanks, Thats exactly what I did. I'm going to try the 2.6.10 Kernel. I'll
use nedit this time when I edit the Makefile.
I was reading the instructions at the begining of this forum about rebuilding
the 2.6.0 kernel, I have a couple of questions...

1) Then copy your existing .config to your new kernel source tree...
cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.?/.config /usr/src/linux...

Do I have to do this? Can't I start from make mrproper?

2)Just exit and save the configuration, then...
make
su -c "make modules_install"
make install

Is this really all I have to do?

What happened to:
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make
make install
make modules
make modules_install

Does "su -c "make modules_install"" take the place of all that?

Thanks again for all your help
Phil

Yes you can start from scratch by running 'make mrproper' - My suggestion assumed that you wanted to keep your configuration but this is not necessary. Just be sure to reconfigure everything.

As for the steps involved, 2.5 and 2.6 kernels require a different build process and 2.4.
make dep is no longer necessary and you can just type make && make modules_install

---------
make dep---------> no need for that with 2.6.x kernel
make clean-------->why, it's clean
make bzImage
make---------------->use either " make " or " make modules + make bzImage "
make install --------> use either " make install " or " make modules-install + cp bzimage > /boot by hand "
make modules
make modules_install
-------------

there are more ways to build & install a kernel.

and you best use the old configfile as a startpoint for configuration

egag

OK, so now that I think I have it, just to be sure
this is what I'm going to do;
I've already edited my lilo.conf
I'll use nedit to edit Makefile

I downloaded patch-2.6.10.bz2 into /usr/src
extract to this directory;

tar -xjvf patch-2.6.10.bz2

then I'm going to remove the the link to the old kernel and link to new kernel;

rm -f linux
ln -s linux-2.6.10 linux

change into that directory
cd /usr/src/linux

make mrproper
make xconfig
save and exit
make
make install
reboot

all done, with custom kernel...

Just want to be sure because I haven't rebuilt a kernel since SL 7.0

and the kernel I'm using now is stock bare.i

also I think I read some where I will not need
the line,
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
in my lilo.conf any more to run my cd-writer
is this true?