On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ponkumaran Annadurai <aspkumaran@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@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.