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SubjectRe: IMPOSSIBLE task
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 03:48:19PM +0200, deicide wrote:
> hi,
> i wrote this before:
> >>i have:
> >>s.u.s.e Linux 5.2
> >>kernel 2.0.33
> >>gcc - 2.7.2.1
> >>binutils 2.8.1
> >>
> >>i try to compile 2.0.36 (but i receive the same error messages when i try
> to
> >>compile 2.0.34 or 2.0.35)
> >>
> >>in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile i have OBJDUMP_FLAGS=-k -q
> >>and when i try to make zImage when it enters
> >>/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/ it says that objdump doesn't have
> >>such flags, and it really doesn't have.
>
> and some of you advised me upgrade my binutils(to get new objdump). and i
> did. now i have binutils-2.9.1 and gcc-2.8.1 and i still experience the
> same problem!!! because even the newest objdump doesn't have such flags(k &
> q)! one guy told me that he also has this version of binutils and that he's
> objdump also doesn't have such flags. and that he also has such flags
> declared in his /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile but he DOESN'T have any
> problems making his zImage file. that sounds pretty impossible to me! i'm
> desperate! if some of you help me i'm gonna give him 1 million dollars in
> cache! (joking)
>

del the encaps program from your old binutils. Don't worry, it won't bite.
The makefile still thinks you have an old binutils because of the encaps, and
so tries to use the -k et al flags. Or else just go into arch/i386/boot/Makefile,
and edit the if that decides to use OBJDUMP/OBJCOPY to use OBJCOPY.

-- arvind

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