i'm running fedora core 2 and i'm trying to compile kernel 2.6.8.1 from source. everything is fine up until i type 'make bzImage' when after a minute it gives me this error;


ld: BFD 2.15.90.0.3 20040415 assertion fail ../../bfd/linker.c:619
arch/x86_64/ia32/built-in. o (.data+0x3a8) : In function 'ia32_sys_call_table' :
: undefined reference to 'sys32_ipc'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1


does anyone know how to go about fixing it?

When you propose to recompile the kernel, you need to have the kernel source code installed, not just the binary. Check your install cd's for the kernel source and install it, then try again to compile a new kernel.
As it now stands, you don't have the source installed for the kernel which is currently installed (header files, etc). Therefore, the necessary info to guide the re-compiile is not available (compile is not smart enough to get that info from the package you are trying to recompile).
That's the best advice I can give you based on past experience with trying to compile kernels.

I see you're compiling for a x86-64 target.

Sometimes the .config dependencies are not correctly sorted out on Kconfig.

So you may need to enable CONFIG_IPC or something like that to make the kernel build, although the xconfig or menuconfig configurators don't notice this because there are no rules to tell them that. This is actually a bug in Kconfig, but a very subtle one with a easy workaround.

You should try to first do a "make defconfig" to make all the default options (or get the ones used by Red Hat), and build the kernel with those options.

After that set the options you want and build after setting a few options. If setting (or unsetting) option X makes an unbuildable kernel, just toggle it back.

Just a Thought...
To build a 2.6. kernel you just need to 'make && make modules_install'....
The command 'make bzImage' comes from the 2.4 kernels, and I am not sure waht it does in 2.6 kernel

Apart from this, do a pmasques said...
you could also copy the config from an old 2.6-kernel

Greets
Geronimo

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