I finally figured out why linux wouldn't build its modules. Although I learned a lot about make it was because I had set
GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always" in my /root/.bashrc which is sourced by shell invocations from make (and odd shell scripts as well, like configure scripts). So, the lesson is, don't modify common shell utilities in ~/.bashrc or strange things might happen. There are a couple of safe alternatives for grep colors. You can move GREP_OPTIONS to ~/.bash_profile which is only sourced by login shells, or you can define alias cgrep="--color=always" In keeping with the shell color theme I have also defined: alias less="less -R" alias tree="tree -C" Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
