I just recently abandoned my own linux setup and installed debian (hamm). This is a pretty much stock setup -- the only thing un-debian I've done so far is change /bin/sh to point to pdksh, but that *shouldn't* be the problem because I've compiled many kernels with my old setup where I didn't even have bash on the system.
I've been having problems compiling a new kernel. I downloaded the 2.0.35 source package, and configured it. When I just make the kernel, it makes it without errors, but when I try top generate a compressed kernel, it complains about objdump (specifically "objdump: invalid option -- k"). What am I missing? This is the output of make: # make zImage [many messages deleted] make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib' if hash encaps 2> /dev/null; then \ objdump -k -q -o 0x100000 /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/vmlinux > $tmppiggy; \ else \ objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -R .stab -R .stabstr /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/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: invalid option -- k Usage: objdump [-ahifCdDprRtTxsSlw] [-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] [--[no-]show-raw-insn] [--demangle] [--adjust-vma=offset] [-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 /bin/sh: encaps: not found ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x1000 -e startup_32 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o ld: cannot open piggy.o: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/arch/i386/boot/compressed' make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zImage] Error 2 -- Chris Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] 530 754 4355 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null