Problem in compiling kernel

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ponkumaran Annadurai
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hello,

I encountered the following error while compiling the kernel version
linux-2.6.39.1. So I am giving here what I got on my screen.

root at rocker:/usr/src/linux-2.6.39.1# make
? CHK???? include/linux/version.h
? CHK???? include/generated/utsrelease.h
? CC????? kernel/bounds.s
? GEN???? include/generated/bounds.h
? CC????? arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s
? GEN???? include/generated/asm-offsets.h
? CALL??? scripts/checksyscalls.sh
? HOSTCC? scripts/genksyms/genksyms.o
? SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/lex.c
? SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/parse.h
? SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/keywords.c
? HOSTCC? scripts/genksyms/lex.o
? SHIPPED scripts/genksyms/parse.c
? HOSTCC? scripts/genksyms/parse.o
? HOSTLD? scripts/genksyms/genksyms
? CC????? scripts/mod/empty.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? HOSTCC? scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
? MKELF?? scripts/mod/elfconfig.h
? HOSTCC? scripts/mod/file2alias.o
? HOSTCC? scripts/mod/modpost.o
? HOSTCC? scripts/mod/sumversion.o
? HOSTLD? scripts/mod/modpost
? HOSTCC? scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders
? HOSTCC? scripts/selinux/mdp/mdp
? HOSTCC? scripts/kallsyms
? HOSTCC? scripts/conmakehash
? HOSTCC? scripts/recordmcount
? CC????? init/main.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? CHK???? include/generated/compile.h
? UPD???? include/generated/compile.h
? CC????? init/version.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? CC????? init/do_mounts.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? CC????? init/do_mounts_rd.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? CC????? init/do_mounts_initrd.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? CC????? init/do_mounts_md.o
/bin/sh: Yobjdump: not found
? LD????? init/mounts.o
/bin/sh: Yld: not found
make[1]: *** [init/mounts.o] Error 127
make: *** [init] Error 2

Have you tried to setup some sort of cross-compilation environment?
Could you check CROSS_COMPILE env variable?

thanks,
Daniel.