Re: Compilation of 2.4.0 fails when processing /i386/boot

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:15:39AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 23:11:31 +0000, 
> Stuart Luscombe <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >I am compiling kernel 2.4.0, and I am getting the following error
> >during the 'make install' part of the build:
> >ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> >ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory
> 
> New binutils on an old kernel.  Change -oformat to --oformat.

Or even better, change v2.4.0 to v2.4.13pre5 or v2.4.12ac3.

/David Weinehall
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