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

["David Luyer" <david@luyer.net>]

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
[...]

Happens for me also (on latest snapshot).

/dev/null is removed by this line in check-lxdialog.sh during a
'make menuconfig':

   echo "main() {}" | $cc -lncursesw -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null

This only happens if you don't have a libncursesw installed (not sure
if it is compiler dependant as well).

/dev/null being removed has many side-effects, this is just one of them.

Obviously 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV null' will fix.  Oh, and fixing the script
would be useful too ;-)

David.
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