On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 01:13:41PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 17 November 2017 11:31:55 Julia Cartwright wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:28:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I've had this downloaded for 2 or 3 weeks so its old. > > > > > > Tried to build it on a rock64 just now, and got this: > > > > > > rock64@rock64:/media/slash/home/rock64/4.11.12.rt15/linux-4.11$ time > > > make HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > > > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf > > > scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig > > > CHK include/config/kernel.release > > > UPD include/config/kernel.release > > > CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h > > > CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h > > > "4.11.12-rt16--- localversion-rt +++ localversion-rt @@ -1 +1 @@ > > > --rt15 +-rt16" exceeds 64 characters > > > > My suspicion is that your localversion-rt file in your working tree > > has a bizarre value, it should just contain "-rt16\n", instead it > > contains garbage which lookes like a patch/merge conflict. > > > > Can you check it's contents? > > > > I've checked the tags pushed to git, and they look just fine, so > > perhaps this is a leftover merge problem on your end? > > > > Julia > > Thanks for the reply Julia, but that is not the clanging bell, darn it. > > rock64@rock64:/media/slash/home/rock64/4.11.12.rt15/linux-4.11$ cat localversion-rt > -rt16 Another guess: do you have any files in the source or build directories whose names start with 'localversion'? Like, 'localversion-rt.patch', perhaps? The kernel's build systems concatenates these files together to try to construct a release version, if there are extra files around, that will cause problems. Julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html