Problem in compiling kernel

[Daniel Baluta]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ponkumaran Annadurai
<aspkumaran at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I encountered the following error while compiling the kernel version
> linux-2.6.39.1. So I am giving here what I got on my screen.
>
> root at rocker:/usr/src/linux-2.6.39.1# make
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CC      kernel/bounds.s
>   GEN     include/generated/bounds.h
>   CC      arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
>   GEN     include/generated/asm-offsets.h
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   HOSTCC  scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
>   SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/lex.c
>   SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/parse.h
>   SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/keywords.c
>   HOSTCC  scripts/genksyms/lex.o
>   SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/parse.c
>   HOSTCC  scripts/genksyms/parse.o
>   HOSTLD  scripts/genksyms/genksyms
>   CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
>   MKELF   scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mod/file2alias.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mod/sumversion.o
>   HOSTLD  scripts/mod/modpost
>   HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
>   HOSTCC  scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp
>   HOSTCC  scripts/kallsyms
>   HOSTCC  scripts/conmakehash
>   HOSTCC  scripts/recordmcount
>   CC      init/main.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
>   UPD     include/generated/compile.h
>   CC      init/version.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   CC      init/do_mounts.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   CC      init/do_mounts_rd.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   CC      init/do_mounts_initrd.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   CC      init/do_mounts_md.o
> /bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
>   LD      init/mounts.o
> /bin/sh: Yld: not found
> make[1]: *** [init/mounts.o] Error 127
> make: *** [init] Error 2

Have you tried to setup some sort of cross-compilation environment?
Could you check CROSS_COMPILE env variable?

thanks,
Daniel.