Has anyone ever has a problem like this. This is a fresh kernel. I can enter the command 'make mrproper' without any problems on a fresh kernel 2.4,

added the 2.4.1 patch - No problems
added the 2.4.2 patch - No Problems
added the 2.4.3 patch and I get the following output

(NOTE: I started from scratch several times in order to track it down to when I add the 2.4.3 patch. I also tried redownlaoding the 2.4.3 patch but it didn't help any.

[root@lockbox /usr/src/kernel/linux]# make mrproper
make: /bin/pwd: Command not found
H$@H$@make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel/linux/arch/i386/boot'
rm -f tools/build
rm -f setup bootsect zImage compressed/vmlinux.out
rm -f bsetup bbootsect bzImage compressed/bvmlinux.out
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
rm -f vmlinux bvmlinux _tmp_*
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel/linux/arch/i386/boot'
find . \( -name '*.[oas]' -o -name core -o -name '.*.flags' \) -type f -print \
| grep -v lxdialog/ | xargs rm -f
rm -f kernel/ksyms.lst include/linux/compile.h vmlinux System.map .tmp* drivers/char/consolemap_deftbl.c drivers/video/promcon_tbl.c drivers/char/conmakehash drivers/char/drm/*-mod.c drivers/pci/devlist.h drivers/pci/classlist.h drivers/pci/gen-devlist drivers/zorro/devlist.h drivers/zorro/gen-devlist drivers/sound/bin2hex drivers/sound/hex2hex drivers/atm/fore200e_mkfirm drivers/atm/{pca,sba}*{.bin,.bin1,.bin2} net/khttpd/make_times_h net/khttpd/times.h submenu*
rm -rf modules
make -C Documentation/DocBook clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel/linux/Documentation/DocBook'
Makefile:146: /Rules.make: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel/linux/Documentation/DocBook'
make: *** [clean] Error 2


If this problem is caused by a bad downloaded file, could someone tell me how to verify the downloads.


BTW, I don't know what the problem is with 'pwd'. If I enter the command I get my working directory, but I cannot find pwd anywhere on my system.

pwd is the *nix command to tell what the current directory is.
pwd = print working directory

make is calling pwd to determine where it's compiling from, and therefore, where (relative to itself) it should look for or install libraries, files, ect.

/bin/pwd should be where the file is; i've never seen a distro that had it anywhere else. if it's not there, find out where it is and make a link to it. 'ls -r pwd' should find it, if nothing else works.

it's pretty strange that it wouldn't be there.

I looked into this a little deeper and I think I have come accross a serious problem. I have quite a few files that are missing. (300-400). I think it might be a harddisk failure. I just installed Redhat 7.0 three weeks ago, applied all updates, installed KDE2.1 and browsed the internet.

Sorry to bug you guys, this is a problem that has nothing to do with the kernel, it is something else alltogether that in my opinion can only be fixed with a reinstall.

BTW the pwd command was not to be found anywhere even when using the find command, but when I enter

pwd

I get...

/root/linux

seems like it is working okay but 'pwd' binary is gone.

Hi
Did you update your GCC compiler. RH7.0 came with a dysfunctional one.
Jim

yeah I updated it, but I think I am having a problem a little more serious than that. I am pretty sure it is hardware related. Thanks for your reply.