From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275628AbTHOBOG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:14:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275629AbTHOBOG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:14:06 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.at ([212.16.59.250]:40141 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275628AbTHOBOC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:14:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 03:14:13 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Daniel Pezoa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TOPDIR kernel variable Message-ID: <20030815011413.GC24130@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Pezoa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030814231959.22781.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030814231959.22781.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:19:59PM -0700, Daniel Pezoa wrote: > Hello Kernel Community !! :-) > > I'am compiling lirc software, the kernel source is > needed to make them, but when i attemt to make them it > fail because the environment variable TOPDIR is not > set, looking for the origin of the problem, the script > that fail is "pathdown.sh", one tiny script of the > kernel, it fails when is trying to assign > TP=${TOPDIR:). Reading more i found in the Kernel > Makefile the line > > TOPDIR := $(shell /bin/pwd) > > that command should solve my problem but if i launch > them in the console, it give me the following errors > in the screen ouput: > > bash: shell: command not found > bash: TOPDIR:=: command not found probably your make is too old ... http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/virtualmanuals/root-doku/make/make_78.html > What is the intention of the environment variable > TOPDIR and how can i give them a valid value? $(shell /bin/pwd) would evaluate the current/working directory HTH, Herbert > Thanks for your help and Good luck!! :-) > > Daniel Pezoa > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/