Re: "build-id" changes break sparc64

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:05:00PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:12:15PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > > rm vmlinux*; time make vmlinux
> > > > 
> > > > Vanilla tree: ~7,7 sec
> > > > With single shot ld (Roland's patch): 8,3 secs
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't you compare:
> > > 	rm vmlinux*; find . -name built-in.o -print | xargs rm
> > > 	time make vmlinux
> > > or something like that?
> > 
> > No.  You are talking about the time of full build; there it would
> > be relevant.  For incrementals it's definitely not so.
> 
> Ah, I see what you are testing.  Well, a fair test then is to do something
> that would actually happen, which is almost never just "rm vmlinux".
> i.e., at least one ld -r -o foo/built-in.o from changing one source file.

The normal case is one change somewhere => build kernel.
That can be tested by a simple
rm mm/memory.o; /usr/sbin/time make vmlinux

I will try that later.
For now I'm building an allyesconfig just to see if the build actually completes.
It is quite a number of .o files to link in one go and I fear ld will blow up 
and make my machine go OOM.

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	Sam