Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:53:53 -0500 | From | Eli Carter <> | Subject | Re: TOPDIR kernel variable |
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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
Commands in a Makefile are for make, not commands that bash (your shell) will understand. (If I understand what you said above, that is.)
> What is the intention of the environment variable > TOPDIR and how can i give them a valid value?
If that is in the Makefile, try make TOPDIR=...
HTH,
Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------
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