Bug#421455: linux-source-2.6.20: Could not configure due to compilation errors

[didischuster@arcor.de (Dieter Schuster)]

Package: linux-source-2.6.20
Version: 2.6.20-3
Severity: grave

Trying to build an own kernel on Linux/PPC. Failed with the following
message:

/tmp/linux-source-2.6.20$ make menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
/tmp/ccNt5el1.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccNt5el1.s:12947: Error: operand out of range (0x00000000ffffffff is not between 0x0000000000000000 and 0x00000000000000ff)
/tmp/ccNt5el1.s:12949: Error: operand out of range (0x00000000ffffffff is not between 0x0000000000000000 and 0x00000000000000ff)
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2


Greetings, 

	Dieter Schuster


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-grsec (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.20 depends on:
ii  binutils               2.17cvs20070426-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                  1.0.3-6           high-quality block-sorting file co

Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.20 recommends:
ii  gcc                           4:4.1.1-15 The GNU C compiler
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]          2.5-4      GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util

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