Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I > tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The > Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect. > > So I ran > > distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile > > which told me 'tar: Makefile: Not found in archive' > > So where can I locate the Makefile for my kernel, assuming the above > command is correct? > > Maxim > > >
Are you in the kernel directory? Should be /usr/src/linux if yours is like mine. Going by the prompt I see, you may be in the distfiles directory. Or did you name your puter distfiles? Dale :-) :-)
