Trouble in compiling kernel 2.4.20

[Charles Trois]

Sorry I sent this message while not complete. What I wanted to ask is this:
would it be possible that this so-called stable kernel is bugged? or that
version 2.4.20 is incompatible with Yellow Dog? or that I am making a big
mistake?

In the last case, it seems that the error could  only come from the xconfig
phase, and this brings another question: when configuring the kernel, what
is one free to do, and what is one ***not*** free to do?

Any hints will be welcome.

Charles.

> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:41:18 +0100
> Subject: Trouble in compiling kernel 2.4.20
> From: Charles Trois <charles.trois@wanadoo.fr>
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> My machine is a new style iMac, running YDL 2.3. The kernel in use is
> 2.4.19.
> 
> As an exercise, I would like to get the most recent stable kernel, which
> appears to be 2.4.20.
> 
> I therefore downloaded the proper source from kernel.org and tried to build
> the kernel. After xconfig, I launched "make dep"; this is where things went
> wrong, as shown by the last lines of the log:
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ppc/boot'
> scripts/mkdep -- init/*.c > .depend
> scripts/mkdep -- `find /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/asm
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/linux /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/scsi
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/net /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/include/math-emu \(
> -name SCCS -o -name .svn \) -prune -o -follow -name \*.h ! -name
> modversions.h 
> -print` > .hdepend
> /bin/sh: scripts/mkdep: Argument list too long
> make: *** [dep-files] Error 126
> 
> The same happened with other downloads (ppckernel.org, also the benh tree).