2.6.9-r1, make menuconfig error

nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

Hi -

I installed 2.6 headers (nptl USE var) from a just-downloaded stage1*2004.3* tar file into a 5G chroot'd env. Got up to kernel install and did "emerge gentoo-dev-sources". When I try to run "make menuconfig" it fails with:

# using defaults found in arch/i386/defconfig
#
arch/i386/defconfig:128: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PM_DISK
arch/i386/defconfig:175: trying to assign nonexistent symbol PCI_USE_VECTOR
arch/i386/defconfig:251: trying to assign nonexistent symbol BLK_DEV_CARMEL
arch/i386/defconfig:291: trying to assign nonexistent symbol BLK_DEV_ADMA
arch/i386/defconfig:364: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SCSI_MEGARAID
arch/i386/defconfig:569: trying to assign nonexistent symbol NET_FASTROUTE
arch/i386/defconfig:776: trying to assign nonexistent symbol QIC02_TAPE
arch/i386/defconfig:1247: trying to assign nonexistent symbol X86_STD_RESOURCES

Your kernel configuration changes were NOT saved.

I ran "make clean" to try starting over and it says include/linux/version.h does not exist (why would that be?). "make clean mrproper" gets me no further (I tried copying 2.6 version.h from /usr/include/linux but didn't do any good and removed it).

ncurses was installed (5.4-r5). The (ill-advised) /usr/src/linux link is in place. I searched a couple posts and only found older threads which didn't resolve the problem. I ran through stage1 and got to this point without really doing anything that isn't in the install docs. I have a 2.6.7 cfg file which I copied to .config but get essentially the same error but now pointing to .config.

I don't know what else to check. Anyone know how to get past this?

Mike

nordic bro · Guru Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 585

I copied over my old 2.6 cfg to .config, ran "make oldconfig" and that seems to have gotten around the problem. Compiling now...

Mike

anfpunk · Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:43 am Post subject:

Does anyone have a solution to this? I'm getting the same thing. Pretty sure that it's an ncurses problem as it's doing it for multiple kernel sources for me. I dont feel like using make config as I'm sure you can all understand. My old config file is for 2.4 so make oldconfig wont work for me.

anfpunk · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:40 am Post subject:

Are you using rxvt-unicode? If I use any terminal other than rxvt-unicode it works fine.

Peders · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 1

I was using screen when I bumped into this problem, and could not figure out what caused it.
The problem was solved when I tried without screen

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