diff -ur linux-2.6.33-rc2/scripts/Makefile.lib linux-2.6.33-rc2.fixed/scripts/Makefile.lib
--- linux-2.6.33-rc2/scripts/Makefile.lib	2009-12-24 21:09:41.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.33-rc2.fixed/scripts/Makefile.lib	2009-12-27 18:34:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
 
 # Bzip2 and LZMA do not include size in file... so we have to fake that;
 # append the size as a 32-bit littleendian number as gzip does.
-size_append = printf $(shell						\
+size_append = /usr/bin/printf $(shell						\
 dec_size=0;								\
 for F in $1; do								\
 	fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F);					\