From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Prarit Bhargava Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:19:29 +0000 Subject: Re: "make ARCH=ia64 headers_install" generates assembly errors Message-Id: <470CED81.3080903@redhat.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the result of running: > > $ make -d V=1 ARCH=ia64 headers_install > > Reading makefiles... > Reading makefile `Makefile'... > Reading makefile `/home/rpjday/k/git/scripts/Kbuild.include' (search path) (no ~ expansion)... > Reading makefile `/home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/Makefile' (search path) (no ~ expansion)... > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-segrel.S: Assembler messages: > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-segrel.S:1: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.rodata' > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-segrel.S:2: Error: no such instruction: `data4 @segrel(start)' > objdump: '/tmp/out26433': No such file > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/toolchain-flags: line 19: [: !=: unary operator expected > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-text-align.S: Assembler messages: > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-text-align.S:1: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.proc' > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-text-align.S:2: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.prologue' > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-text-align.S:3: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.save' > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-text-align.S:6: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.endp' > readelf: Error: '/tmp/out26433': No such file > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas-asm.S: Assembler messages: > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas-asm.S:1: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `[' > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas-asm.S:2: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.xdata4' > objdump: '/tmp/out26459.o': No such file > /home/rpjday/k/git/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas: line 10: [: !=: unary operator expected > Updating makefiles.... > ... etc etc ... > > the issue appears to be this snippet from arch/ia64/Makefile: > > ... > GAS_STATUS = $(shell $(srctree)/arch/ia64/scripts/check-gas "$(CC)" "$(OBJDUMP)") > CPPFLAGS += $(shell $(srctree)/arch/ia64/scripts/toolchain-flags "$(CC)" "$(OBJDUMP)" "$(READELF)") > ... > > Are these lines even useful anymore given the current tool chain we have? P. > this will obviously cause problems if you have no cross-compiler, > which you really shouldn't need if all you're doing is installing > headers, anyway. > > the headers_install step still works, but it would be cleaner if the > Makefile didn't try to do things like check for proper assembler when > there's no call for it. > > rday > >