[SOLVED] make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop.

[frank56]

I ran into this problem before, and easily solved it. I don't remember doing --depclean recently, but have done several -avuDN world updates. I tried.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0.6  USE="symlink -build -deblob" 
frank ~ # make menuconfig
make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'.  Stop.

I added symlink to my /etc/make.conf before the above step, but as you see I still get the No rule message.

 ls -l /usr/src/linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 25 08:16 /usr/src/linux -> linux-3.0.6-gentoo
frank ~ #

I notice the Dec 25th date. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, since I just emerged sys-kernel today, jan 11th. Other thread/websearch solutions do not seem to work for me this time around.

Solved, with emerge =gentoo-sources-3.0.6 I think I am still confusing the kernel and gentoo-sources. I am still not sure what the best or a way to prevent my gentoo sources from being deleted by an update. Do I enter =gentoo-sources-3.0.6 in /etc/portage/package.use ?

[Jonathan183]

if you are emerging a later version of gentoo-sources by doing a world update eg emerge -avuDN world then the new kernel sources will be installed to /usr/src/ and the symlink /usr/src/linux will be updated to point to the latest kernel.

The previous versions of the kernel will still be there until you remove them ... try ls /usr/src -l
The symlink is update because you have the symlink use flag - you can change this but then you need to remember to update the symlink manually

Ed: example output below ...

total 13
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root   18 Jan 14 00:03 linux -> linux-3.2.1-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r5
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.31-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r2
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r5
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.32-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r3
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r5
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.33-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r2
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.34-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Jan  3  2011 linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r2
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x  2 jonathan root   72 Nov 21  2010 linux-2.6.35-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Jan  3  2011 linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r12
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Jun 12  2011 linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Jun 12  2011 linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Jun 12  2011 linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Sep 30 21:24 linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1416 Nov 10 22:15 linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1240 Jan  2 21:33 linux-3.0.6-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1240 Jan  2 21:32 linux-3.1.4-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 20 jonathan root 1240 Jan  2 21:31 linux-3.1.5-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 24 jonathan root 1608 Jan  2 17:29 linux-3.1.6-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 24 jonathan root 1608 Jan 14 01:04 linux-3.2.1-gentoo

Even though I have done a few emerge --depcleans the folders still exist because they contain .config file - gentoo-2.6.30-r5 ls -la output for example below

total 53
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    72 Nov 21  2010 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root  1456 Jan 14 00:03 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 52374 Aug 29  2009 .config

Which I can manually remove if I want to

[MikeTbob]

To keep portage or depclean from removing packages that you want to keep, including kernels, use this command to add the package to your world set

emerge --noreplace (packagename)