Problem in compiling kernel

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 23:21, 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

w00t? Yobjdump? the best I know is "objdump", but never "Yobjdump".

BTW, you do have binutils package installed, right?

And this kernel tarball is 100% valid, right? Have you confirmed it by
checking its MD5sum/SHA1sum or something like that? Who knows it's
just a matter of corrupt downloaded file...

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Mulyadi Santosa
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