Problems compiling 2.0.30?

Mike Perry (mikepery@mikepery.pr.mcs.net)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:04:53 -0500 (CDT)


I use a fairly standard redhat 4.1 linux dist, with libc 5.4.23,
pgcc-ss-970404 being the only things updated, yet I get this error upon compiling
the 2.0.30 kernel (patched from fresh 2.0.29)

Could you tell what needs fixin?

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
tmppiggy=/tmp/$$piggy; \
rm -f $tmppiggy $tmppiggy.gz $tmppiggy.lnk; \
if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \
objdump -k -q -o 0x100000 /usr/src/linux/vmlinux > $tmppiggy; \
else \
objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -R .stab -R .stabstr /usr/src/linux/vmlinux $tmppiggy; \
fi; \
gzip -f -9 < $tmppiggy > $tmppiggy.gz; \
if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \
encaps --target elf32-i386 piggy.o $tmppiggy.gz input_data input_len; \
else \
echo "SECTIONS { .data : { input_len = .; LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .; *(.data) input_data_end = .; }}" > $tmppiggy.lnk; \
ld -m elf_i386 -m elf_i386 -r -o piggy.o -b binary $tmppiggy.gz -b elf32-i386 -T $tmppiggy.lnk; \
fi; \
rm -f $tmppiggy $tmppiggy.gz $tmppiggy.lnk
objdump: illegal option -- k
Usage: objdump [-ahifdDprRtTxsSlw] [-b bfdname] [-m machine] [-j section-name]
[--archive-headers] [--target=bfdname] [--debugging] [--disassemble]
[--disassemble-all] [--disassemble-zeroes] [--file-headers]
[--section-headers] [--headers]
[--info] [--section=section-name] [--line-numbers] [--source]
[--architecture=machine] [--reloc] [--full-contents] [--stabs]
[--syms] [--all-headers] [--dynamic-syms] [--dynamic-reloc]
[--wide] [--version] [--help] [--private-headers]
[--start-address=addr] [--stop-address=addr]
[--prefix-addresses] [--show-raw-insn]
[-EB|-EL] [--endian={big|little}] objfile...
at least one option besides -l (--line-numbers) must be given
objdump: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core
ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x1000 -e startup_32 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0/arch/i386/boot/compressed'
if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \
objdump -k -q -o 0x1000 compressed/vmlinux > compressed/vmlinux.out; \
else \
objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -R .stab -R .stabstr compressed/vmlinux compressed/vmlinux.out; \
fi
objdump: illegal option -- k
Usage: objdump [-ahifdDprRtTxsSlw] [-b bfdname] [-m machine] [-j section-name]
[--archive-headers] [--target=bfdname] [--debugging] [--disassemble]
[--disassemble-all] [--disassemble-zeroes] [--file-headers]
[--section-headers] [--headers]
[--info] [--section=section-name] [--line-numbers] [--source]
[--architecture=machine] [--reloc] [--full-contents] [--stabs]
[--syms] [--all-headers] [--dynamic-syms] [--dynamic-reloc]
[--wide] [--version] [--help] [--private-headers]
[--start-address=addr] [--stop-address=addr]
[--prefix-addresses] [--show-raw-insn]
[-EB|-EL] [--endian={big|little}] objfile...
at least one option besides -l (--line-numbers) must be given
objdump: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core
make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [zlilo] Error 2

Is my objdump buggy?

root:/usr/src/linux> objdump -V
GNU objdump 970202
Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.

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