Makefile check for older binutils broken?

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:48AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While trying to compile 2.6.14-rc4 on my Pegasos (running Debian unstable):
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcelo/8xx/linux-2.6.14-rc4'
> *** 2.6 kernels no longer build correctly with old versions of binutils.
> *** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.12.1 or newer
> make[2]: *** [checkbin] Error 1

What's your CONFIG_SHELL set to?

[snip]
> marcelo at pegasos:~$ /bin/echo dssall | as -many -o /tmp/output.as >/dev/null 2>&1
> marcelo at pegasos:~$ echo $?

What about if you run the whole test on shell (if ...), does it work there? 
What shell are you running?

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