make menuconfig and 2.4.22-pre8

Hi,

I can't make menuconfig with a 2.4.22-pre8 Kernel.

This is what I did:

grisey:/usr/src# tar -xjf ~orm/install/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 
grisey:/usr/src# rm -f linux
grisey:/usr/src# ln -s linux-2.4.21 linux
grisey:/usr/src# patch -p0 < patch-2.4.22-pre8 2>&1 \

grisey:/usr/src# cd linux
grisey:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
Using defaults found in .config
Preparing scripts: functions, parsing

<...>

(about 3 minutes of awk and kswapd constantly swapping, making the whole system extremely unresponsive)

and then:

Beendet
Awk died with error code 143. Giving up.
make: *** [menuconfig] Fehler 1

grisey:/usr/src/linux#   

With the vanilla kernel 2.4.21 there are no problems at all.

Anybody interested in the patch log?

--
Orm

you are out of order with the above 2 lines. Remove the link first, then unpack and rename the new kernel.

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Nowadays linux-x.x.x.tar.gz unpacks into linux-x.x.x directory, so it shoudn't matter.

Instead of "rm -f; ln -s" you could do "ln -nfs".

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Hi,

Trying to make a 2.4.22-pre8 kernel fails. After patching a vanilla 2.4.21, copying my old menuconfig to the source and 'make oldconfig', all working fine, make dep dies:

grisey:/usr/src/linux# make dep
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: Für das Ziel »dep« ist nichts zu tun.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/arch/i386/boot'
rm -f .depend .hdepend
make _sfdep_kernel _sfdep_drivers _sfdep_mm _sfdep_fs _sfdep_net _sfdep_ipc _sfdep_lib _sfdep_crypto _sfdep_arch/i386/kernel _sfdep_arch/i386/mm _sfdep_arch/i386/lib _FASTDEP_ALL_SUB_DIRS="kernel drivers mm fs net ipc lib crypto arch/i386/kernel arch/i386/mm arch/i386/lib"
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8'
make -C kernel fastdep
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/kernel'

<...>

(30 or so more lines all looking like always)
and then:

make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers'
make -C acpi fastdep
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers/acpi'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/scripts/mkdep -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -D_LINUX -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers/acpi/include -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -- ac.c acpi_ksyms.c asus_acpi.c battery.c blacklist.c bus.c button.c ec.c fan.c numa.c osl.c pci_bind.c pci_irq.c pci_link.c pci_root.c power.c processor.c system.c tables.c thermal.c toshiba_acpi.c utils.c > .depend realpath(/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers/acpi/include) failed, No such file or directory
make[4]: *** [fastdep] Fehler 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers/acpi'
make[3]: *** [_sfdep_acpi] Fehler 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers'
make[2]: *** [fastdep] Fehler 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8/drivers'
make[1]: *** [_sfdep_drivers] Fehler 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-pre8'
make: *** [dep-files] Fehler 2
grisey:/usr/src/linux#

Is this a bug or some mistake on my side?

--
Orm

P.S.: Thanx for the help on the previous issues!