On 23.2.2010 09:17, Meelis Roos wrote: > I am trying to build 2.6.33-rc* for a 64-bit parisc machine (using > kernel.package in Debian unstable if it matters). The build > fails assembling any .ko files with objcopy: > > objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=/home/mroos/linux-2.6/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc8-00173-g627fa17/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-00173-g627fa17/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko /home/mroos/linux-2.6/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc8-00173-g627fa17/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-00173-g627fa17/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko > objcopy:/home/mroos/linux-2.6/debian/linux-image-2.6.33-rc8-00173-g627fa17/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-00173-g627fa17/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko: File format not recognized I guess this objcopy command is run outside of the kernel build system (a packaging script storing debug info in /usr/lib/debug), nothing the kernel makefiles can do about. [...] > However, I see no inclusion of arch-specific Makefile before the > assignment of OBJCOPY in main Makefile. Could this be the problem? That's OK, make variables assigned with '=' are expanded when they are used. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
