/bin/sh: cmp: command not found - when compile 2.6.15 again .
 

help :)

Im getting the below when doing a #make bzImage for my new kernel..
have done this plenty of times before with no probs

CHK include/linux/compile.h
/usr/src/linux-2.6.15/scripts/mkcompile_h: line 76: cmp: command not found
UPD include/linux/compile.h

/bin/sh: cmp: command not found
Inconsistent kallsyms data
Try setting CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Can you confirm that 'cmp' exists? Mine is in /usr/bin.

hi there - no it does not appear to be there actually.. checked,
/bin and /usr/bin

I dont recall removing any thing from the system recently though - last compile which worked was only 3-4 weeks ago.
is this a file that i can just copy back in?

On my Slackware system, cmp is in the diffutils-2.8.1-i386-1 package. You should be able to re-install the package without any problems - just make sure the version you install is the same (or later) than the one in /var/log/packages

Maybe your path is messed up and cmp is not found.

Thanks a million guys!! :)

Just manually copied the cmp file from /mnt/cdrom/slackware/ap/diffutils-2.8.1-i386-1.tgz/usr/bin
just put it in /bin like it wanted and all appears to be good again!
cheers!

Actually i put it in both! ;)

No point doing that ;)

The one that is first in your $PATH (probably /bin) will always be run...