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

[Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>]

On 1/19/06, David Luyer <david@luyer.net> wrote:
> 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
> [...]
>
> Happens for me also (on latest snapshot).
>
> /dev/null is removed by this line in check-lxdialog.sh during a
> 'make menuconfig':
>
>    echo "main() {}" | $cc -lncursesw -xc - -o /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>
> This only happens if you don't have a libncursesw installed (not sure
> if it is compiler dependant as well).
>
> /dev/null being removed has many side-effects, this is just one of them.
>
> Obviously 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV null' will fix.  Oh, and fixing the script
> would be useful too ;-)

I checked and /dev/null exists.  I also have libncursesw5 installed.
Oddly, I rebooted and when I ran make, the build proceeded.  I quit
and ran "make menuconfig" again.  As you suggested, this did break
my build process as before.  I had to reboot in order to complete the
build process.  Any other possibilities?

Thanks!
        Miles