[gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

[gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

[Maxim Wexler]

Hi group,

I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I
tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The
Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect.

So I ran

distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile

which told me 'tar: Makefile: Not found in archive'

So where can I locate the Makefile for my kernel, assuming the above
command is correct?

Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

[Dale]

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I
> tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The
> Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect.
>
> So I ran
>
> distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile
>
> which told me 'tar: Makefile: Not found in archive'
>
> So where can I locate the Makefile for my kernel, assuming the above
> command is correct?
>
> Maxim
>
>
>   

Are you in the kernel directory?  Should be /usr/src/linux if yours is
like mine.  Going by the prompt I see, you may be in the distfiles
directory.  Or did you name your puter distfiles?

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

[forgottenwizard]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:06:16PM -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Hi group,
> 
> I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I
> tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The
> Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect.
> 
> So I ran
> 
> distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile
> 
> which told me 'tar: Makefile: Not found in archive'
> 
> So where can I locate the Makefile for my kernel, assuming the above
> command is correct?
> 
> Maxim
> 

run --test with tar, grep for the makefile, then extract the file.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't linux#make menuconfig -- Makefile gone

[Neil Walker]

Maxim Wexler wrote:
> I needed to configure iptables support into the kernel but when I
> tried to run make menuconfig got 'No rule to make target' error. The
> Makefile was gone. A casualty of a recent emerge -uDN world, I expect.
>
> So I ran
>
> distfiles# tar xvfj linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2 Makefile
>
> which told me 'tar: Makefile: Not found in archive'
>
> So where can I locate the Makefile for my kernel, assuming the above
> command is correct?
>   

That's why I never set up a linux system without mc. It's just so much
easier when you can
look inside an archive and manipulate files just as if it were part of
the file system. :)

Anyway, the archive has a directory inside it (linux-2.6.29). That's
where all the files are.
So it would be /linux-2.6.29/Makefile.

Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com