On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:06:16PM -0600, 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 >
run --test with tar, grep for the makefile, then extract the file.
