Hi, There is first thiw warning about gawk, and then the failure. Not sure if they are related. This build system has mawk installed (Ubuntu 8.10). Error: Your awk doesn't support charactor-class. Please try to use gawk. CC arch/x86/lib/inat.o arch/x86/lib/inat.c:24:25: error: inat-tables.c: No such file or directory arch/x86/lib/inat.c: In function ‘inat_get_opcode_attribute’: arch/x86/lib/inat.c:29: error: ‘inat_primary_table’ undeclared (first use in this function) arch/x86/lib/inat.c:29: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once arch/x86/lib/inat.c:29: error: for each function it appears in.) arch/x86/lib/inat.c: In function ‘inat_get_escape_attribute’: arch/x86/lib/inat.c:44: error: ‘inat_escape_tables’ undeclared (first use in this function) arch/x86/lib/inat.c: In function ‘inat_get_group_attribute’: arch/x86/lib/inat.c:67: error: ‘inat_group_tables’ undeclared (first use in this function) arch/x86/lib/inat.c: In function ‘inat_get_avx_attribute’: arch/x86/lib/inat.c:85: error: ‘inat_avx_tables’ undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [arch/x86/lib/inat.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/x86/lib] Error 2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html