make-kpkg and 2.6.38-rc4 vanilla

[Lucio Crusca]

Hi,

I'm trying to build 2.6.38-rc4 vanilla using make-kpkg under Maverick. The 
last time I compiled a kernel was 2.6.36 and I was using Lucid, and I 
suppose it went ok, since I'm still running it in Maverick. 

After extracting the sources and configuring the options, I run

# CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2 make-kpkg --initrd binary

this spits out usual debian specific messages:

exec make kpkg_version=12.033 -f /usr/share/kernel-
package/ruleset/minimal.mk debian INITRD=YES 
...
====== making target debian/stamp/dummy-config-common [new prereqs: ]======
====== making target debian/stamp/do-pre-config-common [new prereqs: dummy-
config-common]======

/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules debian/stamp/pre-config-common
make[1]: ingresso nella directory "/home/lucio/linux/linux-2.6.38-rc4"
====== making target debian/stamp/pre-config-common [new prereqs: dummy-
config-common]======
...

but it does not compile anything (typical "CC filename", "LD filename" and 
so on are completely missing). Moreover no error is reported. It simply 
exits after less than a minute and no compilation takes place and no deb 
package is produced.

I've also tried on a fresh maverick install on a different machine and the 
results are just the same. I suspect I'm missing something... 

Can you help me spot the problem?

Thanks in advance
Lucio.