2001-02-22 18:56:06

by Heitzso

Subject: trouble with 2.4.2 just released

I have two boxes that I immediately
tried upgrading the OS on. In both
cases I use a script to automate the
build with a saved off .config file.
simplified ..
untar linux tar ball
cp config.blat linux/.config
cd linux
make oldconfig
make menuconfig
cp .config ../config.blat
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
... copy files around ...
lilo

On one box the build completed but
with half a dozen C warnings and
a block of assembler warnings (RH7).
These will always leave a sys admin
nervous about running a kernel.

On the other box I have yet to get a
successful build (using a .config that
runs 2.4.2-pre4 fine). ld complains
about a missing binary file.

ld: cannot open binary: no such file or directory

email be directly at [email protected] if
someone has a specific question re how
the kernel broke or if they want a copy
of my .config file

Note I'm running debian unstable/woody
on the system that's failing to build
2.4.2, but this same system handled
2.4.2-pre4 albeit with the warnings fine.

Also, feel free to throw the standard
idiot questions at me, I may have made
an idiot mistake. My /usr partition
that has /usr/src/linux tree has 4G
avail, so I'm not running out of drive
space. I'm running the script as root.
I tried both bz2 and gz versions of tarball.
... what am I missing ... ?

Heitzso
[email protected]

2001-02-22 19:57:57

by Keith Owens

Subject: Re: trouble with 2.4.2 just released

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:55:28 -0500,
Heitzso <[email protected]> wrote:
>ld: cannot open binary: no such file or directory

Binutils incompatibility. Linus, please apply.

Index: 2.1/arch/i386/boot/Makefile
--- 2.1/arch/i386/boot/Makefile Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:42:29 +1100 kaos (linux-2.4/T/c/44_Makefile 1.1 644)
+++ 2.1(w)/arch/i386/boot/Makefile Fri, 23 Feb 2001 06:55:22 +1100 kaos (linux-2.4/T/c/44_Makefile 1.1 644)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ compressed/bvmlinux: $(TOPDIR)/vmlinux
@$(MAKE) -C compressed bvmlinux

zdisk: $(BOOTIMAGE)
- dd bs=8192 if=$(BOOTIMAGE) of=/dev/fd0
+ dd conv=notrunc bs=8192 if=$(BOOTIMAGE) of=/dev/fd0

zlilo: $(CONFIGURE) $(BOOTIMAGE)
if [ -f $(INSTALL_PATH)/vmlinuz ]; then mv $(INSTALL_PATH)/vmlinuz $(INSTALL_PATH)/vmlinuz.old; fi
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ tools/build: tools/build.c
$(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -o $@ $< -I$(TOPDIR)/include

bootsect: bootsect.o
- $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -o $@ $<
+ $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -o $@ $<

bootsect.o: bootsect.s
$(AS) -o $@ $<
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ bootsect.s: bootsect.S Makefile $(BOOT_I
$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@

bbootsect: bbootsect.o
- $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary $< -o $@
+ $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary $< -o $@

bbootsect.o: bbootsect.s
$(AS) -o $@ $<
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ bbootsect.s: bootsect.S Makefile $(BOOT_
$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@

setup: setup.o
- $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<
+ $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<

setup.o: setup.s
$(AS) -o $@ $<
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ setup.s: setup.S video.S Makefile $(BOOT
$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@

bsetup: bsetup.o
- $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<
+ $(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<

bsetup.o: bsetup.s
$(AS) -o $@ $<