Re: make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

2022-02-24 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
You are welcome to use and update manual: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel/Updating On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 14:03, Aruna Hewapathirane < aruna.hewapathir...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Greg, now make complains it requires 'flex' ? >> >> Yes, please install that. > > > Done and first

Re: make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

2022-02-24 Thread Aruna Hewapathirane
> > Greg, now make complains it requires 'flex' ? > > Yes, please install that. Done and first compile went smooth took slightly over 40 minutes and below is the second run... aruna@debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ time make -j$(nproc) DESCEND objtool CALL

Re: make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

2022-02-24 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 05:40:33AM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:58:45PM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > > > And I tried to build without make menuconfig and make is telling me I > > > need 'bison' ? Why

Re: make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

2022-02-24 Thread Aruna Hewapathirane
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:58:45PM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > > And I tried to build without make menuconfig and make is telling me I > > need 'bison' ? Why do I need bison ? Since when > > did we need bison ? See below for details. > >

Re: make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

2022-02-23 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:58:45PM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > And I tried to build without make menuconfig and make is telling me I > need 'bison' ? Why do I need bison ? Since when > did we need bison ? See below for details. > > aruna@debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$

make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

2022-02-23 Thread Aruna Hewapathirane
Hi, I am trying to compile the 5.16.10 kernel and make menuconfig throws this error below: aruna@debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ make menuconfig HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf /usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/confdata.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be