[jerryyyyy]

Looks like with the modification 2 posts above, it worked!

I had to manually cd as below to run the make:

XXXXXXXXXX-VirtualBox:~$ cd linux-msm
XXXXXXXXXX-VirtualBox:~/linux-msm$ make clean
XXXXXXXXXX-VirtualBox:~/linux-msm$ make ARCH=arm htc_msm_android_defconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function ‘traps’:
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:377: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
scripts/basic/fixdep.c:379: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function ‘conf_askvalue’:
scripts/kconfig/conf.c:104: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
scripts/kconfig/conf.c: In function ‘conf_choice’:
scripts/kconfig/conf.c:306: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
#
# configuration written to .config
#

Now, all I have to do is figure out the next steps...