> Greg, now make complains it requires 'flex' ?
Yes, please install that.
Done and first compile went smooth took slightly over 40 minutes and below is the second run...
aruna@debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ time make -j$(nproc)
DESCEND objtool
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/generated/compile.h
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
real 0m20.783s [ pre-compiled kernel ]
user 0m54.987s
sys 0m12.117s
Now I have to install and start praying :-)
For anyone who may be interested I had to install these to get things going:
build-essential
libncurses-dev
libssl-dev
bison
libelf-dev
flex
bc
Make menuconfig still needs a fix :-(