[Gen8 General] laptopfreek0:
I did find out why I was getting one of the errors. I was missing some dependencies. Found a quick tutorial on how to compile the kernel for the gen7. http://archos.g3nius.org/index.php?title=Compiling_gen7-gpl

Now I am getting an error about the .config file being out of date. Odd thing is that the make menuconfig does not work... as previously mentioned.

PATH="/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/toolchain_build_arm/bin:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/bin:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/:/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" \
./Configure linux-arm --prefix=/ \
--openssldir=/lib/ssl -L/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/lib -ldl \
-I/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/include threads \
shared no-idea no-mdc2 no-rc5)
Configuring for linux-arm
IsWindows=0
CC =gcc
CFLAG =-fPIC -DOPENSSL_PIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -I/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/include -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_NO_MDC2 -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall
EX_LIBS =-L/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/lib -ldl -ldl
BN_ASM =bn_asm.o
DES_ENC =des_enc.o fcrypt_b.o
BF_ENC =bf_enc.o
CAST_ENC =c_enc.o
RC4_ENC =rc4_enc.o
RC5_ENC =rc5_enc.o
MD5_OBJ_ASM =
SHA1_OBJ_ASM =
RMD160_OBJ_ASM=
PROCESSOR =
RANLIB =/usr/bin/ranlib
ARFLAGS =
PERL =/usr/bin/perl
THIRTY_TWO_BIT mode
DES_RISC1 used
BN_LLONG mode
RC4_CHUNK is undefined
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
Makefile is older than Makefile.org.
Reconfigure the source tree (via './config' or 'perl Configure'), please.
make[1]: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
/usr/bin/make MAKE="/usr/bin/make -j1" CC=/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi-gcc -C /home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m all build-shared
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
Makefile is older than Makefile.org.
Reconfigure the source tree (via './config' or 'perl Configure'), please.
make[1]: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m'
make: *** [/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/build_arm/openssl-0.9.7m/apps/openssl] Error 2
jonathan@tablet-Ubuntu:~/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot$ make menuconfig
make CC="/usr/bin/gcc" -C package/config conf mconf
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/package/config'
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c conf.c -o conf.o
conf.c: In function ‘conf_askvalue’:
conf.c:104: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
conf.c: In function ‘conf_choice’:
conf.c:362: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c kxgettext.c -o kxgettext.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c lxdialog/checklist.c -o lxdialog/checklist.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c lxdialog/inputbox.c -o lxdialog/inputbox.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c lxdialog/menubox.c -o lxdialog/menubox.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c lxdialog/textbox.c -o lxdialog/textbox.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c lxdialog/util.c -o lxdialog/util.o
/usr/bin/gcc -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -DLOCALE -g -O2 -c lxdialog/yesno.c -o lxdialog/yesno.o
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h', needed by `mconf.o'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jonathan/Downloads/Archos/gen8-gpl-froyo/buildroot/package/config'
make: *** [package/config/mconf] Error 2

Oh and this does seem to be the buggiest source/compile I have ever dealt with. But I did talk to someone on xchat last night and they said that they got it to compile out of box. :confused: