unknown pseudo-op: `.subsection'

[mohanlal jangir]

I am trying to compile linux-2.4.18 on cygwin. When I issue "make
bzImage", it gives following error:
mohanlal@MOHANLAL /cygdrive/e/cygwin/home/linux
$ make bzImage
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/cygdrive/e/cygwin/home/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prot
otyp
es -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -g -pipe -mpreferred-
stac
k-boundary=2 -march=i686   -DKBUILD_BASENAME=main -c -o init/main.o
init/main.c
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:3509: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.subsection'
{standard input}:3517: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.subsection'
{standard input}:3863: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.subsection'
{standard input}:3871: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.subsection'
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1

The gcc version is:
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/specs
Configured with:
/netrel/src/gcc-3.3.1-2/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,
java --enable-libgcj --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-nls
--wi
thout-included-gettext --enable-interpreter --enable-sjlj-exceptions --disab
le-v
ersion-specific-runtime-libs --enable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i6
86-p
c-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfd
ir=/
etc --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --libexecdir=/usr/sb
in
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special)

Assembler version is
$ as -v
GNU assembler version 2.14.90 (i686-pc-cygwin) using BFD version 2.14.90
2003090
1


Can somebody tell me what is the problem?

Regards
Mohanlal


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