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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:19:30 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
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Subject: Re: CROSS_COMPILE not taken into account on parisc64?
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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