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

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

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
> GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Ubuntu4.0.2-7ubuntu1) .section
> .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" exceeds 64 characters' >&2; exit 1; fi;
> (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"2.6.16-rc1-git1 .file null .ident
> GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Ubuntu4.0.2-7ubuntu1) .section
> .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\"; echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE `expr 2
> \\* 65536 + 6 \\* 256 + 16`; echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a)
> << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))'; ) < /usr/src/linux-2.6/Makefile >
> include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r include/linux/version.h ] && cmp
> -s include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; then rm -f
> include/linux/version.h.tmp; else echo '  UPD    
> include/linux/version.h'; mv -f include/linux/version.h.tmp
> include/linux/version.h; fi'
> make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2
Do you have any file in your build directory named localversion* ?
That would explain the loon line that includes 
".file null .ident GCC: ..."

Otherwise something else goes in and trigger the long localversion.
The variable CONFIG_LOCALVERSION may also be set to a wrong value in
your environment but this is unlikely.

	Sam