I tried setting up a bolloon build on a new machine by (more or less) 
following 

http://www.balloonboard.org/balloonwiki/SoftwareBuilding

After svnning, make did pretty much nothing with no useful indication on what 
it should do (Perhaps muttering about missing config might be a Good Thing).


I did a make menuconfig which generated a config. Then ran make which fell 
over at:

f 
[ -z "/opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/-CUED" -o ! -f /opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/series-balloon3-CUED ] ; 
then \
	  
ln -sf /opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/series-balloon3.default /opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/series; 
\
	else \
	  
ln -sf /opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/series-balloon3-CUED /opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/series; 
\
	fi
ln: creating symbolic link 
`/opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel/patches/2.6.37.6/series': No such file or 
directory
make[1]: *** [/opt/balloon/trunk/build/kernel/series.stamp] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/balloon/trunk/package/kernel'
make: *** [zImageBoot] Error 2

There are patches for other kernels, but not the default!



May I be so forward as to suggest that 
http://www.balloonboard.org/balloonwiki/SoftwareBuilding is going to be the 
first port of call for any newbie and best effort should be made to keep this 
building. Always. Even if that means making pulling a "known good" svn rev.

Having to expend huge effort dabbling into things just to get going is 
sub-encouraging and not a way to make people feel good about balloon.

-- Charles

[ Yes I fully admit that I screw up too.]