The ld in newer bintuils doesn't like -oformat, rather it
requires --oformat instead. This is backwards compatible at
least to 2.9.5 so shouldn't break anything :)
As far as I can tell on i386 uses ld in such a way.
  --cw
diff -Nur linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot/Makefile linux-2.4.2.new/arch/i386/boot/Makefile
--- linux-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot/Makefile	Tue Dec 21 11:43:39 1999
+++ linux-2.4.2.new/arch/i386/boot/Makefile	Sun Feb 25 01:12:23 2001
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 	$(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -o $@ $< -I$(TOPDIR)/include
 
 bootsect: bootsect.o
-	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -o $@ $<
+	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -o $@ $<
 
 bootsect.o: bootsect.s
 	$(AS) -o $@ $<
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 	$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@
 
 bbootsect: bbootsect.o
-	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary $< -o $@
+	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary $< -o $@
 
 bbootsect.o: bbootsect.s
 	$(AS) -o $@ $<
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 	$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@
 
 setup: setup.o
-	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<
+	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<
 
 setup.o: setup.s
 	$(AS) -o $@ $<
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 	$(CPP) $(CPPFLAGS) -traditional $(SVGA_MODE) $(RAMDISK) $< -o $@
 
 bsetup: bsetup.o
-	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<
+	$(LD) -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary -e begtext -o $@ $<
 
 bsetup.o: bsetup.s
 	$(AS) -o $@ $<
-
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