My friend has downloaded Android Kitkat source code and he has built it in his machine.Later he gave me that tar file of Kikat source code, I took that source code and when i tried to build it i got following below compilation issue
make[2]: *** No rule to make target /media/XXXXXX/kitkat/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.7/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-eabi/4.7/include/stdarg.h', needed by../../../out/target/product/XXXXX/XXX/XXXX/XXXXX/XXXX/XXXXX/init.o'. Stop.
I have also installed all utilities such as zip curl libc6-dev libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev but still i am facing the same issue So i just want to know that will i face any problem if i directly build downloaded source file from other machine?
Since the tar file you got from your friend has the object files built for his system, so you may need to do clean build.