From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FDFDE11A for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:15:12 +1100 (EST) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so44542fga.39 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:15:31 +0200 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer To: Kumar Gala Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix linking modules against crtsavres.o Message-ID: <20081016161531.GA5299@mx.loc> References: <20081009195125.GG5178@mx.loc> <20081016152402.GA12408@secretlab.ca> <547FA711-EB43-4F0A-B69D-AE7C9557AC37@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <547FA711-EB43-4F0A-B69D-AE7C9557AC37@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, sam@ravnborg.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:24 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:51:25PM +0200, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> [ http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11143 has it all] >> This patch solves the problem for me. Without it building modules >> before the kernel proper fails to find crtsavres.o when linking. I did not install the .o nor it's prerequisites so only fixed building modules in tree. For building external modules these LDFLAGS_MODULE_PREREQ would need to be installed too, as noted by Olaf in the bug. I do not need them to be installed myself, so please take care of it if you have time to do so. >> Ben, Paul or Sam, could you please look at this and make comment >> if it is the right approach? >> >> I also agree that this should be back ported to the stable series >> >> (Note: for some reason this patch did *not* show up in patchwork). > > because it was sent as an attachment. Indeed. Sorry for that..