Problem in compiling kernel

[aspkumaran@gmail.com (Ponkumaran Annadurai)]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Ponkumaran Annadurai
> <aspkumaran@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >> Have you tried to setup some sort of cross-compilation environment?
> >> >> Could you check CROSS_COMPILE env variable?
> >>
> >> >  Yes, I have given yes for that option during configuration
> >>
> >> OK, then that's your problem. CROSS_COMPILE is a string
> >> pointing to your cross compiler prefix.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Daniel.
> >
> >
> > Yes, It worked. Thank you sir. But I couldn't understand the reason. Can
> you
> > explain this to me?
>
> Please keep kernelnewbies to CC:, so that other can read about this problem
> if they hit it.
>
> The reason for which it didn't work is that you haven't set a valid
> cross-compiler
> prefix in CROSS_COMPILE
>
> When you set a cross-compiler prefix, the value stored in CROSS_COMPILE is
> concatenated with the name of each tool used to compile your kernel.
>
> For example, objdump will be used as ${CROSS_COMPILE}objdump. You set
> CROSS_COMPILE=Y, and the tool to be used is now named Yobjdump, which
> obviously doesn't exist.
>
> Valid values for CROSS_COMPILE look like this: CROSS_COMPILE=
> mips64-octeon-linux-gnu-.
>
> Hope that things are now more clear.
>
> thanks,
> Daniel
>

Yes, they are clear. Thank you sir.
-- 
regards,
kumaran
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