make olddefconfig cmd failing

[Sumit Kumar]

Hi Alex,

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

I installed flex and bison. Now the errors have gone away but there are 
still some warnings:

sumitsum at sumit-personal:~/Documents/linux_kernel/git/kernels/staging$ 
make olddefconfig
   YACC    scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
   LEX     scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf  --olddefconfig Kconfig
#
# using defaults found in /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic
#
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1125:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for NF_TABLES_INET
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1126:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for NF_TABLES_NETDEV
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1308:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for NF_TABLES_IPV4
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1313:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for NF_TABLES_ARP
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1355:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for NF_TABLES_IPV6
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1393:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for NF_TABLES_BRIDGE
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:3986:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for HW_RANDOM_TPM
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:4760:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for INTEL_SOC_PMIC_CHTWC
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:4976:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for LIRC
/boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:7712:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid 
for HWSPINLOCK
#
# configuration written to .config
#


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Thanks and Regards,

Sumit


On Saturday 21 April 2018 05:18 PM, Alex Arvelaez wrote:
>
> On Apr 21, 2018 7:11 AM, Sumit Kumar <sumit686215 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was following instructions given on this web page: 
> https://kernelnewbies.org/OutreachyfirstpatchSetup
> >
> > I get errors when I execute make olddefconfig cmd:
> >
> > 
> sumitsum at sumit-personal:~/Documents/linux_kernel/git/kernels/staging$ 
> make olddefconfig
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
> >   YACC    scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
> > /bin/sh: 1: bison: not found
>
> You need to install bison. Make sure to install all other build 
> dependencies as well (there's a list in the kernel docs).
>
> > scripts/Makefile.lib:210: recipe for target 
> 'scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c' failed
> > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c] Error 127
> > Makefile:525: recipe for target 'olddefconfig' failed
> > make: *** [olddefconfig] Error 2
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>