On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 in <44486BEC.2060506@privacy.net>, Joe Feise wrote:

> Which filesystem are you using? Not just the fs where the sources are,
> but also where the compiler is installed, and for the tmp directory.
> I had at some point back an issue where reads on Reiser4 would
> continue past the file end in certain circumstances, which caused
> compile errors. Ran a fsck?

i'm running 'uname -rms' Linux 2.6.8-3-686 i686, debian-3.1 with all
ext3 jounaled fs on all mounts. the "fsck" ran through fine.

but you're right, it must be something like this, but more on the side
of the machine beeing all right, instead it must be something i
configured or installed that interferes.

if the Makefile were damaged, i should have seen it when diffing against
other Makefiles, right?

back when i was using FreeBSD, i had a bug torturing me where an
environment variable setting "egrep" default options caused an obscure
failure of a critical kernel part written in assembler. it took me
weeks to find out, and i was the only one ever encountering it. today
i recursively grepped for "filechk_version.h", which is the "define"
"make" doesn't seem to like. and i ran "strace", even on a locally
compiled copy of "make", no results.

could somebody verify the output, please? it's:

/home/usr:src/linux-2.6.16.5
0 2 # env - PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/l/bin" strace -v -e trace=file gnu-make help
execve("/l/bin/gnu-make", ["gnu-make", "help"], [/* 1 var */]) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(3, 1), st_ino=65230, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=96, st_size=47623, st_atime=2006/04/21-17:00:29, st_mtime=2006/04/20-10:33:02, st_ctime=2006/04/20-10:33:02}) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(3, 1), st_ino=358723, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=48, st_size=22940, st_atime=2006/04/21-17:00:30, st_mtime=2006/04/02-15:32:18, st_ctime=2006/04/20-10:30:22}) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(3, 1), st_ino=358709, st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=2464, st_size=1254660, st_atime=2006/04/21-17:00:30, st_mtime=2006/04/02-15:32:18, st_ctime=2006/04/20-10:30:22}) = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(3, 1), st_ino=358472, st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=168, st_size=78233, st_atime=2006/04/21-17:00:30, st_mtime=2006/04/02-15:32:18, st_ctime=2006/04/20-10:30:21}) = 0
getcwd("/home/usr:src/linux-2.6.16.5", 4096) = 29
stat64("/usr/local/include", {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=634041, st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_nlink=3, st_uid=0, st_gid=50, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=4096, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:18:34, st_mtime=2005/12/15-23:01:13, st_ctime=2005/12/15-23:01:13}) = 0
stat64("/usr/gnu/include", 0xbfffe580) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/usr/local/include", {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=634041, st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_nlink=3, st_uid=0, st_gid=50, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=4096, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:18:34, st_mtime=2005/12/15-23:01:13, st_ctime=2005/12/15-23:01:13}) = 0
stat64("/usr/include", {st_dev=makedev(3, 1), st_ino=32578, st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_nlink=43, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=16, st_size=8192, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:22:01, st_mtime=2006/04/20-13:14:26, st_ctime=2006/04/20-13:14:26}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=280095, st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_nlink=19, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=4096, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:26:41, st_mtime=2006/04/17-23:46:23, st_ctime=2006/04/17-23:46:23}) = 0
open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=280095, st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_nlink=19, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=4096, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:26:41, st_mtime=2006/04/17-23:46:23, st_ctime=2006/04/17-23:46:23}) = 0
open("Makefile", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=715922, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=88, st_size=44815, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:26:42, st_mtime=2006/04/17-23:40:12, st_ctime=2006/04/17-23:40:12}) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
open("/home/usr:src/linux-2.6.16.5/scripts/Kbuild.include", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=1092240, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=3576, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:26:41, st_mtime=2006/04/12-22:27:57, st_ctime=2006/04/17-18:49:19}) = 0
open("/home/usr:src/linux-2.6.16.5/arch/i386/Makefile", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=1170561, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=16, st_size=4421, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:26:42, st_mtime=2006/04/12-22:27:57, st_ctime=2006/04/17-18:49:17}) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
open("/home/usr:src/linux-2.6.16.5/arch/i386/Makefile.cpu", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
fstat64(5, {st_dev=makedev(3, 6), st_ino=1170562, st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=8, st_size=1903, st_atime=2006/04/21-16:26:42, st_mtime=2006/04/12-22:27:57, st_ctime=2006/04/17-18:49:17}) = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
Makefile:906: *** target pattern contains no `%'. Stop.
chdir("/home/usr:src/linux-2.6.16.5") = 0

thanks,

clemens fischer