From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JE9bQ-0008OC-5j for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:44 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JE9bO-0008O7-HE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:42 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JE9bN-0008Nv-6M for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JE9bN-0008Ns-1o for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:41 -0500 Received: from ns39764.ovh.net ([91.121.25.85] helo=nexedi.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JE9bM-0006l1-MD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:38:40 -0500 Received: from [10.8.0.46] (unknown [10.8.0.46]) by nexedi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10B93EB24; Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:44:04 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: grub-devel@gnu.org Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:38:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20071222194111.GA8254@durotan.0x539.de> <200801132053.50100.okuji@enbug.org> <20080113201619.GA23454@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080113201619.GA23454@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801132138.39002.okuji@enbug.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Cc: Philipp Kern , 457491@bugs.debian.org, Robert Millan Subject: Re: Fwd: grub2: FTBFS on powerpc (__floatundisf in ls is not defined) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:38:42 -0000 On Sunday 13 January 2008 21:16, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:53:49PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 13 January 2008 13:19, Robert Millan wrote: > > > This is becoming a nightmare. I think it's better if we just exclude > > > symbols starting with __ from our checks. They aren't really meant f= or > > > us to mess with. > > > > My original suggestion was that we could extract (required) symbols from > > libgcc, and export them from the kernel. I think this can be automated. > > Yes, but what's the point? Doesn't libgcc already provide those symbols? It does, but our kernel doesn't. > The problem seems to be only with our checker scripts, not with linking > itself. > > Unless I missed something of course.. =46rom my point of view, ignoring all symbols starting with __ is a hack. I= =20 prefer to resolve symbols in the Right Way. Okuji