Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected

Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-07-16T18:52:40Z

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and
> > > > predictible ways. H.J. stated:
> > >
> > > s/predictable/unpredictable?
> >
> > No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit
> > and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years.
>
> Then please make this a bit more apparent, such as:
>
> "The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random
> but also in more predictible ways."

<bikeshedding>
How about:

The gold linker has known issues of failing for certain configurations.

</bikeshedding>

- Ted