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From: David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>
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Subject: Re: build failure in 2.4.20
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I wrote:

[snip]
 > I'm using GNU ld version 2.13 and objdump -i shows that binary is
 > allowed.  I tried changing the instances of -oformat binary to
 > --oformat=binary in arch/i386/Makefile, but the changes seem to be
 > ignored, which is strange.
 > 

It certainly is, I was changing the makefile in one directory tree and
running make bzImage in another.  Changing -oformat binary to
--oformat=binary fixes this probem and bzImage is now built.

David
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