Error when trying to configure kernel

speeddemon · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 162

Ok, background first. My laptop sucks, whenever it overheats it shutsdown (often). I just finished installing Gentoo, kde, etc, and was finishing up with my kernel, and it shutdown in the middle of the compile. I figure no problem since it happens all the time, never has caused any problems yet, and when I go to make menuconfig (or any make for that matter), it gives me

.depend:1: ***missing separator. Stop.

I tried re-emerging the kernel, didn't change anything.

Now im stuck just short of done, and a lot of stuff doesn't work yet until I can finish with the kernel.

Artherio · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 65

try to make clean, then make

speeddemon · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 162

Nope, doesn't do it. Ok, after messing around a bit, it seems that all the .depend files are corrupted. So how would I go about deleting them all without having to do it one at a time (theres about 200 of them)?

Artherio · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 65

you could do rm *.depend I suppose

speeddemon · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 162

all the files are in different directories. I don't know how to delete the same file from 200 directories with one command, thats what Im looking for, so I don't have to go in each directory to delete it.