make menuconfig and make j$(nproc) throwing errors

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

Hi,

I am trying to compile the 5.16.10 kernel and make menuconfig throws
this error below:

aruna at debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ make menuconfig
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/confdata.o: relocation R_X86_64_32
against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object;
recompile with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/expr.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against
`.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with
-fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.o: relocation R_X86_64_32
against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object;
recompile with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/menu.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against
`.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile
with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/parser.tab.o: relocation R_X86_64_32
against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object;
recompile with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/preprocess.o: relocation R_X86_64_32
against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object;
recompile with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/symbol.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against
`.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile
with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/util.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against
`.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile
with -fPIE
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/util.o: warning: relocation against
`free@@GLIBC_2.2.5' in read-only section `.text'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:104: scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:619: menuconfig] Error 2

And I tried to build without make menuconfig and make is telling me I
need 'bison' ? Why do I need bison ? Since when
did we need bison ? See below for details.

aruna at debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ make -j$(nproc)
  DESCEND objtool
  HOSTCC  scripts/asn1_compiler
  YACC    scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.[ch]
/bin/sh: 1: bison: not found
make[2]: *** [scripts/genksyms/Makefile:21:
scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.c] Error 127
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:549: scripts/genksyms] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
<stdin>:1:10: fatal error: libelf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
  CC      /media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.o
  CC      /media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/weak.o
  CC      /media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/check.o
In file included from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/objtool.h:13,
                 from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h:11,
                 from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/check.h:11,
                 from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/special.h:10,
                 from arch/x86/special.c:4:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h:10:10:
fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory
   10 | #include <gelf.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/build/Makefile.build:97:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.o]
Error 1
make[3]: *** [/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/build/Makefile.build:139:
arch/x86] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/objtool.h:13,
                 from weak.c:10:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h:10:10:
fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory
   10 | #include <gelf.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/build/Makefile.build:97:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/weak.o] Error
1
In file included from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/objtool.h:13,
                 from
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/arch.h:11,
                 from check.c:13:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h:10:10:
fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory
   10 | #include <gelf.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/build/Makefile.build:97:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/check.o]
Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:56:
/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o]
Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:69: objtool] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:1349: tools/objtool] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [Makefile:1181: scripts] Error 2

HELP!

aruna at debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:amdgcn-amdhsa:hsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian
10.2.1-6' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-10/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,m2
--prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-10
--program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared
--enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib
--enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes
--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object
--disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie
--with-system-zlib --enable-libphobos-checking=release
--with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto
--enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64
--with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib
--with-tune=generic
--enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/gcc-10-Km9U7s/gcc-10-10.2.1/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,amdgcn-amdhsa=/build/gcc-10-Km9U7s/gcc-10-10.2.1/debian/tmp-gcn/usr,hsa
--without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release
--build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu
--target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto-lean
--enable-link-mutex
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 10.2.1 20210110 (Debian 10.2.1-6)

aruna at debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$ make -v
GNU Make 4.3
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
aruna at debian:/media/aruna/linux-next/home/linux-5.16.10$