make command

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

You are either not in the right directory or you do not have the kernel 
sources installed on your system. Make sure you are in /usr/src/linux, and 
that you are root.

The make command first looks for a file names Makefile, then makefile in 
the current directory. When found, if you supply a target, it then looks 
for that target in the makefile.  You should see some activity as below:
gaf:/usr/src/linux # make dep
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.16.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
scripts/mkdep init/*.c > .depend 
                                             
"Dan Fadayomi" <dfadayomi1 at hotmail.com>  wrote:

> I recently created a kernel config file, and would like to recompile my
> kernel, but I keep getting the following error:
> 
> make: *** No rule to make target 'dep'. Stop.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what it means.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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