From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu ([18.9.28.11]:39113 "EHLO outgoing.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728438AbfGPSwk (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:52:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:52:18 -0400 From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected Message-ID: <20190716185218.GB15080@mit.edu> References: <20190716144034.GA36330@gmail.com> <20190716181324.GA41555@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190716181324.GA41555@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Linus Torvalds , x86@kernel.org, "H.J. Lu" , Masahiro Yamada , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > * Thomas Gleixner 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." How about: The gold linker has known issues of failing for certain configurations. - Ted