Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:14:13 +0200 | From | Herbert Pötzl <> | Subject | Re: TOPDIR kernel variable |
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:19:59PM -0700, Daniel Pezoa wrote: > Hello Kernel Community !! :-) > > I'am compiling lirc software, the kernel source is > needed to make them, but when i attemt to make them it > fail because the environment variable TOPDIR is not > set, looking for the origin of the problem, the script > that fail is "pathdown.sh", one tiny script of the > kernel, it fails when is trying to assign > TP=${TOPDIR:). Reading more i found in the Kernel > Makefile the line > > TOPDIR := $(shell /bin/pwd) > > that command should solve my problem but if i launch > them in the console, it give me the following errors > in the screen ouput: > > bash: shell: command not found > bash: TOPDIR:=: command not found
probably your make is too old ...
http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/virtualmanuals/root-doku/make/make_78.html
> What is the intention of the environment variable > TOPDIR and how can i give them a valid value?
$(shell /bin/pwd) would evaluate the current/working directory
HTH, Herbert
> Thanks for your help and Good luck!! :-) > > Daniel Pezoa > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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