Comment 5 for bug 1665447

[ Fixing fixdep - from x86_64 to ppc64el ]

After you install the debs for kernel and headers do the following:

root@lazy:/# updatedb
root@lazy:/# locate fixdep
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic/.fixdep.cmd
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic/fixdep
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-15/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-15-generic/scripts/basic/.fixdep.cmd
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-15-generic/scripts/basic/fixdep
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-15-generic/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
root@lazy:/#

root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic# ls
bin2c bin2c.c fixdep fixdep.c Makefile
root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic# file fixdep
fixdep: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=438d1c0255e4943c4af1b9568a4cbe83d9034737, not stripped

root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generics# apt update; apt install -y make gcc

root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic# make scripts_basic
  HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
  HOSTCC scripts/basic/bin2c
  HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
  HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic#

root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic# file /usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic/fixdep
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic/scripts/basic/fixdep: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=497f0dbcfa70be01e7057cfd674e361ccd6d035d, not stripped
root@lazy:/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic#