[Buildroot] Linux build error: mixed implicit and normal rules

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Woody,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:13:50AM +0000, Woody Wu wrote:
> On 2012-12-10, Baruch Siach
> <baruch at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 09:14:12AM +0000, Woody Wu wrote:
> >> I am trying to build an old Linux kernel 2.6.16. But got the error:
> >> 
> >> Makefile:441: mixed implicit and normal rules. stop.
> >> 
> >> The line 441 of Linux makefile is:
> >> 
> >> config %config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE
> >> 	$(Q)mkdir -p include/linux
> >> 	$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@
> >> 	$(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(srctree) KBUILD_SRC= .kernelrelease
> >> 
> >> How should I fix this?  My buildroot version is 2012.08.
> >
> > Not related to Buildroot, but anyway...
> >
> > If you used GNU make version 3.82 you need something like (kernel) commit 
> > 3c955b407a084810f57260d61548cc92c14bc627 (fixes for using make 3.82).
> 
> Sorry, what this magic number is?

It's a git commit ID. See the commit itself at 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3c955b407a084810f57260d61548cc92c14bc627. 
For more information on git see http://git-scm.com.

baruch

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