Re: [build bug] x86_64, -git: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.cfi_signal_frame'

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net> wrote:

> The kernel build system is supposed to detect gas support for 
> .cfi_signal_frame -- and while the i386 test is obviously broken (the 
> i386 test for the directive doesn't actually use the directive), the 
> AMD64 test looks like it should work (assuming as-instr works).

the broken one is:

 GNU assembler 2.14.90.0.8 20040114

the working one is:

 GNU assembler 2.16.91.0.6 20060212

i guess i found the reason for the breakage: i was using a 
cross-compiling setup via the following script:

 make -j165 bzImage ARCH=x86_64 CC='distcc /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.0.2-glibc-2.3.6/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc'

Note that i override 'CC' instead of specifying a 'CROSS' prefix. I 
suspect this means as-instr does not switch over to the 
cross-environment and thus mis-detected the gas version?

	Ingo