[PATCH] Arm64: Fix build error while switching from LE to BE

Arun Chandran
2014-06-26T06:46:44Z

Selecting CPU_BIG_ENDIAN and building the kernel fails just after
building it for little endian. According to Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt,
it is a common mistake to forget 'FORCE' while using 'if_changed'

So fix it by 'Forcing' the build of vdso. Fixes build errors like these:

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/note.o

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o: compiled for a little endian system and target is big endian
failed to merge target specific data of file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/sigreturn.o

Signed-off-by: Arun Chandran <achandran@mvista.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index 6d20b7d..a268a9a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $(obj)/vdso-offsets.h: $(obj)/vdso.so.dbg FORCE
$(call if_changed,vdsosym)

# Assembly rules for the .S files
-$(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S
+$(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S FORCE
$(call if_changed_dep,vdsoas)

# Actual build commands
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