From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: on rh 8.0 (i suppose before also) because of line 277 of the Makefile in the kernel source: "kbuild_2_11_nostdinc := -nostdinc $(shell $(CC) -print-search-dirs | sed -ne 's/install: \(.*\)/-I \1include/gp')" when $LANG is set to fr_FR for example gcc -print-search-dirs results: 4]# gcc -print-search-dirs installis: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/ programmes: =/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386 installis: != install: so included dirs aren't there and it doesn't compile Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14 2.put a .config there 3.make dep bzImage on a fr_FR system Additional info:
This has been fixed in the base kernel tree by forcing LANG=C on that command