Hello Helmut, Helmut Auer wrote: > To track this down go to the v4l directory and execute: > > make -n links > > which will show: > echo creating symbolic links... > find ../linux/drivers/media -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. > find ../linux/sound -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. > find ../linux/drivers/staging -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. > find ../linux/drivers/misc -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. > > execute the find commands to see which one fails for further information use: ln -sfv All of them fail. Unfortunately adding -v does not provide any additional information. find ../linux/drivers/media -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sfv --target-directory=. xargs: ln: Zu viele Ebenen aus symbolischen Links But I found a curious solution. It works when I echo the xargs output and pipe it into sh. So this patch resolves my problem: --- media_build_experimental/v4l/Makefile 2015-10-19 21:59:34.000000000 +0200 +++ media_build_experimental-ml/v4l/Makefile 2015-10-19 22:11:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -262,10 +262,10 @@ links:: @echo creating symbolic links... - @find ../linux/drivers/media -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. - @find ../linux/sound -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. - @find ../linux/drivers/staging -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. - @find ../linux/drivers/misc -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 ln -sf --target-directory=. + @find ../linux/drivers/media -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 echo ln -sf --target-directory=. | sh + @find ../linux/sound -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 echo ln -sf --target-directory=. | sh + @find ../linux/drivers/staging -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 echo ln -sf --target-directory=. | sh + @find ../linux/drivers/misc -name '*.[ch]' -type f -print0 | xargs -0n 255 echo ln -sf --target-directory=. | sh config-compat.h:: $(obj)/.version .myconfig scripts/make_config_compat.pl perl scripts/make_config_compat.pl $(SRCDIR) $(obj)/.myconfig $(obj)/config-compat.h This is strange. Anyhow my VDR is up and running again. Thanks for providing me a starting point to look at. Best regards Matthias _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr