On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:25:13PM +0530, Sumit Kumar wrote:
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@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 #
That's fine, all should be good now, have you tried to build this configuration? Also, 4.13 is really old and obsolete and insecure, I strongly recommend using 4.16 at the oldest if you are starting something new like this. good luck! greg k-h