can't build binary-generic from git

[Matt Price]

hi,

i;m following the kernel compile guide, and am stuck here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile#head-8c49b0182e468c06a768e6abb2f2ff343a9158a9
i have a local git tree, a copy of nigel cunningham's hardy+tuxonice
tree (this is on an uptodate hardy system), and it's all ready to go,
but debian/rules fails with this error:

$ AUTOBUILD=1 NOEXTRAS=1 fakeroot debian/rules binary-generic
make: *** No rule to make target `binary-generic'.  Stop.

I get the same error using the binary-debs target:
$ AUTOBUILD=1 NOEXTRAS=1 fakeroot debian/rules binary-debs
make: *** No rule to make target `binary-debs'.  Stop.

The debian/rules makefile is too heavily abstracted for me to interpret,
so i'm not really sure what the problem is...
---
in the middle of this process just now found the KernelMaintenance page
in the wiki, and the 'binary-arch' target.  now i've got this target
building, but i'd *really* like to avoid building all these flavours on
my laptop when i only need one kernel!  any hints on that?

...and while you're reading this -- is there a guide, *anywhere*, to
building a custom linux-restricted-modules?  i know you guys don't like
people building custom kernels, but it's something one has to do to test
out patches that aren't yet accepted in ubuntu; wouldn't it really be
best for everyone if the kernel infrastructure could be held constant
while a patch is tested? that is, make it straightforward to build
custom l-u-m and l-r-m packages that work with the custom kernel, so the
origin of any breakages is readily transparent? 

er, end rant...  if anyone could point me in the right direction i'd be
very hgrateful.  thanks,
matt


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Matt Price
matt.price at utoronto.ca