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vivekian2
Asked: 2009-09-02 14:39:29 +0800 CST

'missing-syscalls' error during kernel compilation

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These are the steps I am doing to compile the linux source on my machine :
1. Copy the config file from /boot to /usr/src/kernels/2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586/ directory
2. make oldconfig
3. make

Step 3 fails with the following error : make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop.

Compiling on a x86 box. Any suggestions ? Please feel free to close this question if it does not belong here.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Can you ensure kernel-headers and kernel-devel are installed?

    eg: yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel

    These are the steps I did on FC11 with vanilla kernel linux-2.6.30.4

    # -- decompress kernel source into /usr/src --
# cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.30.4
# cp /boot/config-2.6.29.6-217.2.fc11.x86_64 ./.config
# make clean
# make oldconfig
# choose 2 (Bzip2) kernel
# Hit enter and accepted the defaults for all the answers - You may want to do different
# make bzImage
# make modules
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