On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 08:08:33 BST J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:04:33 AM CEST Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   I'm near the tail-end of an install, trying to build the kernel.
> > 
> > "make" gets an error as follows.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # make
> > 
> >   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> >   CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
> >   DESCEND  objtool
> >   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
> >   CHK     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
> >   GEN     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
> > 
> > make[1]: *** [kernel/Makefile:133: kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz] Error 127
> > make: *** [Makefile:1729: kernel] Error 2
> 
> Try disabling CONFIG_IKHEADERS in your kernel config.
> I have it disabled on my system.
> 
> --
> Joost

In kernel headers are typically used on OSs which do not have kernel headers 
in their filesystem, like Android on embedded devices.  I'm not sure it would 
be required on a desktop/server PC, unless some special requirements dictate 
it to be so.

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