From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao11.cox.net (fed1rmmtao11.cox.net [68.230.241.28]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10204685E6 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:10:55 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:10:54 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Marcelo Tosatti Message-ID: <20051028161054.GB22245@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20051026133648.GA10373@logos.cnet> <20051026220205.GH26475@smtp.west.cox.net> <20051028085224.GA17520@logos.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20051028085224.GA17520@logos.cnet> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: Makefile check for older binutils broken? List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:52:24AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 03:02:05PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 11:36:48AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > While trying to compile 2.6.14-rc4 on my Pegasos (running Debian unstable): > > > > > > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/marcelo/8xx/linux-2.6.14-rc4' > > > *** 2.6 kernels no longer build correctly with old versions of binutils. > > > *** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.12.1 or newer > > > make[2]: *** [checkbin] Error 1 > > > > What's your CONFIG_SHELL set to? > > bash > > > > > [snip] > > > marcelo@pegasos:~$ /bin/echo dssall | as -many -o /tmp/output.as >/dev/null 2>&1 > > > marcelo@pegasos:~$ echo $? > > > > What about if you run the whole test on shell (if ...), does it work there? > > What shell are you running? > > Yep, that does the trick. Is it good now? Er, that's odd. I was using writing parens, not shell parens :) Can you test the failure case here by changing dssall to garbage? Also, that's not a clean patch, but vs your last one that wasn't valid. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/