Hello, After a bit more investigation, i think i managed to isolate what causes the problem :
1) building a plain kernel-tree with http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/rules with or without LANG=C works. 2) building the powerpc kernel-patch-2.6.(8|10) with http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/rules and LANG=C breaks. 3) building the powerpc kernel-patch-2.6.(8|10) with http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/rules but without LANG=C works. (So much for using LANG=C to make the error message non-french speaker friendly :). I don't know what the difference between the 8.121 rules and the above one is though, will test it once my build completes, which should be another 9-12 hours. Manoj, does this help ? Any info on what changes are in http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/rules ? It definitively seems like the problem is some interaction between LANG=C, make-kpkg and the way it is called. A bit more tests ... 4) calling on a plain kernel-tree the following line, as called by the powerpc kernel package, fails : LANG=C MFLAGS=" -w" MAKEFLAGS="w -- flavour=powerpc" make-kpkg build 5) calling on a plain kernel-tree the following line, as called by the powerpc kernel package, works : MFLAGS=" -w" MAKEFLAGS="w -- flavour=powerpc" make-kpkg build 6) calling on a plain kernel-tree the following line, as called by the powerpc kernel package, works : LANG=C MFLAGS=" -w" make-kpkg build I am a bit in the vague about the significance of exactly what those options mean, especially the MAKEFLAGS though. And it seems obvious that something with them breaks kernel-package. In retrospect, i think it makes sense, since rules complain about some misformed version string, and the flavour=powerpc is the one which is included in the version, but maybe the way i use it is just broken ? Inherited from Jens Schmalzing though, i used to do it differently. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
