Current Karmic git kernel compile

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:16:14PM EST, Alpha Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>     I don't know if this is the right place to report this. If not,
> please don't reply this email to the email group and reply me where to
> report this privately. Thanks.
> 
>     I used to customize the kernel from git source. But recently, in
> karmic git kernel, tag Ubuntu-2.6.30-10.12 and Ubuntu-2.6.31-1.13
> (haven't tried Ubuntu-2.6.30-10.11), I failed to compile it with the
> following error.
> 
> ...
> II: Done
> install -d /home/alpha/src/Ubuntu-2.6.31-1.13/debian/abi/2.6.31-1.13/i386
> find /home/alpha/src/Ubuntu-2.6.31-1.13/debian/build/build-generic/
> -name \*.ko | \
> 		sed -e 's/.*\/\([^\/]*\)\.ko/\1/' | sort >
> /home/alpha/src/Ubuntu-2.6.31-1.13/debian/abi/2.6.31-1.13/i386/generic.modules
> II: Checking modules for generic...explicitly ignoring modules
> dh_testdir
> dh_testdir: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory
> 
> make: *** [install-generic] Error 1

Before you build the kernel, i.e with a clean source tree, run "debian/rules debian/control.stub" As the control file is no longer stored in git, due to it causing many problems when it comes to merging/rebasing.

hth

Luke