From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756788AbcASACa (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:02:30 -0500 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:38645 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754668AbcASAC1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:02:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.4 To: Michael Ellerman , Geert Uytterhoeven References: <1452500907-30943-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> <20160111111437.GA19316@roeck-us.net> <1452750287.21271.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <569D13BB.5090707@roeck-us.net> <1453160050.24878.2.camel@ellerman.id.au> Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Stephen Rothwell From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <569D7D10.1010609@roeck-us.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:02:24 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1453160050.24878.2.camel@ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/18/2016 03:34 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 08:32 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On 01/13/2016 09:44 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: >>> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 12:38 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>>> Hi Günter, >>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:29:52AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> JFYI, when comparing v4.4[1] to v4.4-rc8[3], the summaries are: >>>>>>> - build errors: +13/-13 >>>>>>> [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/9774/ (all 259 configs) >>>>>> >>>>>> + /tmp/ccnzCwY6.s: Error: can't resolve `_start' {*UND* section} - >>>>>> `L0^A' {.text section}: => 43 >>>>>> + /tmp/ccyAN6Ix.s: Error: can't resolve `_start' {*UND* section} - >>>>>> `L0^A' {.text section}: => 43 >>>>>> >>>>>> Various MIPS, the saga continues... >>>>> >>>>> Hi Geert, >>>>> >>>>> do you know which version of binutils is used by kisskb ? >>>>> If it is 2.23.90 or similar (ie below 2.24 and third level version >>>>> has more than one digit), there is a patch pending to fix it. >>>> >>>> No, I don't know. >>> >>> It dumps the GCC version, but not binutils. I should add that one day. >>> >>> The mips toolchain is pretty old, so it's using binutils 2.22. Are you saying I >>> need to update it? >>> >> Michael, >> >> is your toolchain available somewhere as binary ? I'd like to add a single >> mips build test using it if possible. > > Hi Guenter, > > I'm still using this old one from kernel.org: > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.3/x86_64-gcc-4.6.3-nolibc_mips-linux.tar.bz2 > Odd, that works just fine for me when building v4.4. It correctly detects that it can not build vdso and skips it as expected. Puzzled ... Guenter