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Re: HELP! make problems... kernel doesn't want to compile...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (W.D.McKinney)
Sat Nov 2 00:11:06 1996

From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@deesign.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:58:37 -0900 (AKST)
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"Castelijn, Maurice" <Castelijn.Maurice@kpmg.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I try to do "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" or "make modules"
> or almost anything.... I get a message that says:
> 
> 	no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
> 	make: *** [xconfig] Error 1
> 
> Lost -moi-,
> 
> 
>    Maurice.


If you are in X-win, then start an xterm with just su vs. su - .
Or else "$xauth merge ~root/.Xauthority" to get your display up.

Regards

-Dee


W.D. McKinney (Dee)                      deem@deesign.com
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