Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/
>>
>> - This kernel doesn't work on i386!
>>
>>   It oopses late in boot due to an unrevertable change (e3c1b141) in git-x86
>>   which I stared at for a while then I ran out of time and gave up.
>>
>>   I would have just abandoned this release until it was fixed but I'll be
>>   largely offline for ten days starting tomorrow.
>>
>>   The culprits have been notified and hopefully we'll have a patch for
>>   hot-fixes/ tomorrow.
>>
>>   x86_64 and powerpc work OK though.
> 
> Well it doesn't build on x86-64 for me:
> 
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   CC      arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o
> Assembler messages:
> Fatal error: can't create arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/.tmp_compat_binfmt_elf.o: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o] Error 2
> 
> I will post the .config if anyone is interested.
> 

It's a Kbuild race -- if you keep re-building it will eventually build 
the right file.

Not excusable, but that's what's going on.

	-hpa