[H-GEN] make problems

[Everist, Geoff]

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You seem to me missing a couple of directories, in particular
/usr/src/linux/arch and /usr/src/linux/scripts. How was the kernel
distribution installed, tar archive or package? Might be worth verifying
that the distribution is OK.

HTH,

Geoff Everist

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Hollings [mailto:sez at powerup.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2000 5:58
> To: general humbug
> Subject: [H-GEN] make problems
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> Can anyone have a guess at what is going on here?
> 
> CorelLinuxP166:/usr/src/linux# ls
> COPYING      Makefile     drivers      init         lib
> CREDITS      README       fs           ipc          mm
> MAINTAINERS  Rules.make   include      kernel       net
> CorelLinuxP166:/usr/src/linux# whoami
> root
> CorelLinuxP166:/usr/src/linux# make mrproper
> Makefile:213: arch/i386/Makefile: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target `arch/i386/Makefile'.  Stop.
> 
> This is Corel Linux aka Debian slink running kernel 2.2.12.  Trying to
> build the latest kernel but make will not work.
> 
> Sarah
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