Re: 2.6.16-rc1-git1 -- Build error "make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2"

[Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>]

On 1/18/06, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:47:13PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> > make all install modules modules_install
> > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo '  CHK
> > include/linux/version.h'; mkdir -p include/linux/;      if [ `echo -n
> > "2.6.16-rc1-git1 .file null .ident
> > GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Ubuntu4.0.2-7ubuntu1) .section
> > .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" | wc -c ` -gt 64 ]; then echo
> > '"2.6.16-rc1-git1 .file null .ident
> > GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Ubuntu4.0.2-7ubuntu1) .section
> > .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" exceeds 64 characters' >&2; exit 1; fi;
> > (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"2.6.16-rc1-git1 .file null .ident
> > GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Ubuntu4.0.2-7ubuntu1) .section
> > .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\"; echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE `expr 2
> > \\* 65536 + 6 \\* 256 + 16`; echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a)
> > << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))'; ) < /usr/src/linux-2.6/Makefile >
> > include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r include/linux/version.h ] && cmp
> > -s include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; then rm -f
> > include/linux/version.h.tmp; else echo '  UPD
> > include/linux/version.h'; mv -f include/linux/version.h.tmp
> > include/linux/version.h; fi'
> > make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2
> Do you have any file in your build directory named localversion* ?
> That would explain the loon line that includes
> ".file null .ident GCC: ..."
>
> Otherwise something else goes in and trigger the long localversion.
> The variable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION may also be set to a wrong value in
> your environment but this is unlikely.

I don't have any localversion* files in the build directory.
I do have .kernelrelease that contains:
"2.6.16-rc1-mm1 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Ubuntu4.0.2-7ubuntu1) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits"
I tried deleting it,  but it gets recreated.

I'm pretty frustrated.  I have built hundreds of kernels and have not
hit this problem before.

Any help is most appreciated!
          Miles
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