question about compiling a kernel

Pat Plummer yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:42:39 -0600


On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 12:01 , Harold Shanafield 
<hshanafield@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hopefully this is an easy question with a quick
> solution.  I downloaded the source for compiling a
> kernel and unpacked.  I then typed make menuconfig and
> got a bash: make: command not found.  This seems like
> the easy step.  What am I missing?

A couple of things come to mind:

Are you logged in as root or have you become the superuser (su -) to do 
the compile?

Are you sure you have all the build tools installed?

Just some thoughts...

Pat
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