From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:52:35 -0500 From: Josh Boyer To: Timur Tabi Subject: Re: Build failure on treeboot-walnut.cg Message-ID: <20071009135235.1026bb23@vader.jdub.homelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <470BA6ED.3020504@freescale.com> References: <470AA224.7050709@freescale.com> <20071009030729.GI12499@localhost.localdomain> <470BA6ED.3020504@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.com, David Gibson List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:06:05 -0500 Timur Tabi wrote: > David Gibson wrote: > > > Policy. Compiling everything means build bugs - like this one - can > > be found by everybody, not just those building for the specific > > obscure platform. > > Is this a new policy? Modules in the kernel are not built unless you want > them. Even in arch/powerpc/platforms, only the specific platform file I'm > targeting is built. So I don't really understand why you claim it's normal > for platform-specific files to be built, regardless of the actual platform. > > And frankly, I don't like this "policy". Build bugs for 4xx should not > interfere in my 83xx development. I can't build any kernels now because of > this bug! I fixed this bug. It should be in Paul's latest tree. You seem to be having a different issue with your binutils though. josh