[gentoo-user] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

  Is my netbook dying, or is something else wrong?  This is an older
32-bit Atom netbook, with
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables"
and 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"'.  Compiling the kernel works OK, but
"make modules_install" dies as follows...

[aa1][root][/usr/src/linux] make modules_install
  INSTALL drivers/char/kcopy/kcopy.ko
  INSTALL drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko
  DEPMOD  3.7.10-gentoo
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.alias is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.alias.bin is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.builtin is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.builtin.bin is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.ccwmap is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.dep.bin is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.devname is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.inputmap is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.ofmap is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.order is not an ELF file
depmod: cannot read ELF header from /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.seriomap
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.softdep is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.symbols is not an ELF file
depmod: /lib/modules/3.7.10-gentoo/modules.symbols.bin is not an ELF file
make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 1

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications