make-kpkg and 2.6.38-rc4 vanilla

[Tom H]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Lucio Crusca <lucio at sulweb.org> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to build 2.6.38-rc4 vanilla using make-kpkg under 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:
>
> 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...

What are all the previous commands?

Does it work with "kernel_image modules_image" rather than with "binary"?