Re: [main-line]Build warnings on PowerPC system

[Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>]

>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
>>> index 1db60fe13802..09ceb5a42d81 100755
>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
>>> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ fi
>>>   # suppress some warnings in recent ld versions
>>>   nowarn="-z noexecstack"
>>>   if ! ld_is_lld; then
>>> -       if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.39 | ld_version)" ]; then
>>> +       if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.35 | ld_version)" ]; then
>>>                  nowarn="$nowarn --no-warn-rwx-segments"
>>>          fi
>>>   fi
>> Above change fixes the issue. No warnings observed. Thank you!!
> 
> Take care, this must be a special version of binutils.
> 
> With regular 2.36.1 I get following error:
> 
> $ /opt/gcc/gcc-8.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-ld --version
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1
> Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version.
> This program has absolutely no warranty.
> 
> $ /opt/gcc/gcc-8.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-ld --no-warn-rwx-segments test.o
> /opt/gcc/gcc-8.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-ld: unrecognized option '--no-warn-rwx-segments'
> /opt/gcc/gcc-8.5.0-nolibc/powerpc64-linux/bin/powerpc64-linux-ld: use the --help option for usage information
> 

Nice catch. Thanks Christophe.

May be we need to handle this special/specific case with an
additional check

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
index 1db60fe13802..d3779c20e548 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ nowarn="-z noexecstack"
 if ! ld_is_lld; then
        if [ "$LD_VERSION" -ge "$(echo 2.39 | ld_version)" ]; then
                nowarn="$nowarn --no-warn-rwx-segments"
+        elif [ "$LD_VERSION" -eq "235020000" ]; then
+                nowarn="$nowarn --no-warn-rwx-segments"
        fi
 fi

 
Maddy