From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:50:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [BUILD-FAILURE] linux-next: Tree for June 11 - on ia64 Message-Id: <20080611145057.GA10487@uranus.ravnborg.org> List-Id: References: <20080611193840.08a35b14.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <484FE1EE.9020201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <484FE1EE.9020201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:02:14PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > The next-20080611 kernel build fails on ia64 machine > > AR arch/ia64/lib/lib.a > LD vmlinux.o > MODPOST vmlinux.o > GEN .version > CHK include/linux/compile.h > UPD include/linux/compile.h > CC init/version.o > LD init/built-in.o > LD .tmp_vmlinux > LD vmlinux > ld: .tmp_kallsyms.o: linking constant-gp files with non-constant-gp files > ld: failed to merge target specific data of file .tmp_kallsyms.o > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 A kbuild bug.. We do a local build of .tmp_kallsyms.o and we do not pass -mconstant-gp Can you please try if the following patch fixes it. Sam diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh index b9ecff5..b335700 100644 --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ if [ "${CONFIG_KALLSYMS}" = "y" ]; then # Do an extra pass to link in kallsyms data ${NM} -n .tmp_vmlinux | scripts/kallsyms > .tmp_kallsyms.S - ${CC} ${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS} -c -o .tmp_kallsyms.o \ + ${CC} ${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${AFLAGS_KERNEL} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS} -c -o .tmp_kallsyms.o \ .tmp_kallsyms.S # link in kalll symbols tell LD vmlinux