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I would like to compile a custom kernel for my laptop. However, neither "make xconfig" nor "make gconfig" appear to work, and I would rather not use "make menuconfig" since it is rather cumbersome. Make xconfig will not work since there is no qt3-devel package available for installation. However, I have installed the usual packages to enable "make gconfig" but I still receive the error

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make gconfig
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/kconfig/gconf', needed by `gconfig'.  Stop.
make: *** [gconfig] Error 2


Has anyone managed to get "make gconfig" to work, and if so, could you tell me which devel packages had to be installed?

It appears to be a problem in scripts/kconfig/Makefile

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ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),xconfig)
   qconf-target := 1
endif
ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),gconfig)
   gconf-target := 1
endif

3rdparty/Makefile:
   pushd $(srctree)/3rdparty ; $(PERL) ./mkbuild.pl ; popd

ifeq ($(qconf-target),1)
   hostprogs-y += qconf
endif

ifeq ($(gconf-target),1)
   hostprogs-y += gconf
endif


Try moving the contents of the second pair of ifeq statements into the first pair.

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ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),xconfig)
   qconf-target := 1
   hostprogs-y += qconf
endif
ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),gconfig)
   gconf-target := 1
   hostprogs-y += gconf
endif

3rdparty/Makefile:
   pushd $(srctree)/3rdparty ; $(PERL) ./mkbuild.pl ; popd


I was able make xconfig with this change.

Update 8 Feb 13: I had to do the same thing with the 3.4.24 kernel.

I cant reproduce the problem :/

if you install qt4-devel "make xconfig" should work

for gconfig to work you need: gtk+2.0-devel, glade2.0_0-devel, glib2.0-devel

I have similar situation. Can't run make xconfig command:

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make[1]: *** No rule to make target "scripts/kconfig/qconfig", needed by "xconfig".Stop.
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

And make menuconfig don`t working too. After this command is executed nothing happens.
Kernle sources is located in /usr/src/linux-3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2/ directory.

I think you have only installed the kernel headers package. If you install the full kernel sources, they should be found in /usr/src/linux-3.3.8-2.mga2. You can't build the kernel with just the headers

After kernel sources was installed make menuconfig is working but with xconfig I get the same error.

Have you installed the qt4-devel package, as tmb suggests above?

Yes.

Well, 'make menuconfig' may not be very pretty, but it does the job. I've never used anything else.

This problem persists for "make xconfig" in Mageia 3 with kernel-source-3.8.13-1.mga3-1-1.mga3 and qt4-devel installed. However, the solution proposed by jimfenton continues to work.