Distribution: Debian Hardware Environment: Athlon XP 2800, 256 RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 XT Software Environment: GNU GCC 3.3, X11r6 v4.3.x Problem Description: I get a segfault when the compile process performs " AR arch/i386/lib/lib.a" having run "make bzImage" The 2.4.x series kernels compiled fine. I tried to find the recommended compiler, but that sucker's been impossible to find. Thanks for any help you can offer. - Del'riaan
Looks like ar bug, not kernel. Try upgrading ar, it should be in binutils package.
I agree, this doesn't seems a kernel bug at all, so you'd be better to report this to binutils/distro maintainer (but please reopen it if you find some proof)