On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:18:27PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
quoted text
> Hi,
> 
> The make allyesconfig build fails on x86_64 (AMD box) with the following
> error
> 
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
> make[2]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `|', needed by `asm-generic'.  Stop.
> make[1]: *** [headers_install] Error 2
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2

Which make version are you using - it looks like a make bug.
Did this occur with an older kernel or has this behaviour just started?

To get further you can disable "headers check" in kernel hacking menu
but we need to find out why it fails for you.

Note: '|' is used to say that a prerequisite is 'order only' in
scripts/Makefile.headersinst

	Sam
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