<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I tried to build both linux mainline and linux-next on my Fedora 16 box. But in both cases I am running into errors in making the .config</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here is a what is written (partial from top) to stdout:</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">*** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">init/Kconfig:237:warning: multi-line strings not supported</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace">kernel/irq/Kconfig:75:warning: multi-line strings not supported</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">init/Kconfig:667:warning: multi-line strings not supported</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace">init/Kconfig:1216:warning: multi-line strings not supported</font></div><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">init/Kconfig:1307:warning: multi-line strings not supported</font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace">init/Kconfig:1308:warning: multi-line strings not supported</font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">And the following (partial from bottom) to stderr:</font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><div>drivers/vhost/Kconfig:10: syntax error</div><div>drivers/vhost/Kconfig:9: unknown option "To"</div>
<div>drivers/vhost/Kconfig:10: unknown option "be"</div><div>drivers/lguest/Kconfig:12: syntax error</div><div>drivers/lguest/Kconfig:11: unknown option "Note"</div><div>drivers/lguest/Kconfig:12: unknown option "not"</div>
<div>drivers/lguest/Kconfig:15: syntax error</div><div>drivers/lguest/Kconfig:14: unknown option "If"</div><div>lib/xz/Kconfig:59: syntax error</div><div>lib/xz/Kconfig:58: unknown option "Unless"</div>
<div>lib/xz/Kconfig:59: unknown option "and"</div><div>lib/Kconfig:281: syntax error</div><div>lib/Kconfig:280: unknown option "If"</div><div>make[1]: *** [defconfig] Error 1</div><div>make: *** [defconfig] Error 2</div>
<div><br></div></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have verified that I have buildtools, kernel-devel and header packages. And last month I had built the kernel (mainline) for first time on Linux Mint. But here, probably, I am missing something completely. Google search didn't help much either.</font></div>
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