On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 05:40:33AM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:58:45PM -0500, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote: > > > And I tried to build without make menuconfig and make is telling me I > > > need 'bison' ? Why do I need bison ? Since when > > > did we need bison ? See below for details. > > > > > > aruna@debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ make -j$(nproc) > > > DESCEND objtool > > > HOSTCC scripts/asn1_compiler > > > YACC scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.[ch] > > > /bin/sh: 1: bison: not found > > > > You need bison to build the kernel, sorry, please install it. > Oh my, you actually went through that mess ? I will do so thank you. > > > > > make[2]: *** [scripts/genksyms/Makefile:21: > > > scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.c] Error 127 > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:549: scripts/genksyms] Error 2 > > > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > > <stdin>:1:10: fatal error: libelf.h: No such file or directory > > > > You also need libelf. > I will install libelf-dev as well thanks. > > Greg, now make complains it requires 'flex' ? Yes, please install that. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
