Ok, I've been trying all day to get a 1.03 kernel compiled with all the patches I'd like. I managed to finally get all in, and began the compile. make config, then make dep both work fine. But make zImage eventually gives me this:

(none):/usr/src/linux# make zImage
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config
arm-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O 2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -msoft-float -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm110 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
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arm-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O 2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -msoft-float -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm110 -DUTS_MACHINE='"arm"' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c
*** 2.2 kernels no longer build correctly with old versions of binutils.
*** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.9.5.
make: *** [dummy] Error 1

I do this:
(none):/usr/src/linux# apt-get install binutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, binutils is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.

Checking into binutils, it looks like 2.9.5.0.31-3 is installed right now.

Any ideas?

(This happens on the empeg, or on the cross-compiler I tried to set up)