Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Adrian Bunk
2008-02-29T13:05:56Z

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:45:51PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Russell,
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:54:18 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:09:43 +0000 Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > As mentioned elsewhere, what we need for ARM is to extend the kautobuild
> > > infrastructure (see armlinux.simtec.co.uk) so that we can have more trees
> > > at least compile tested regularly - but that requires the folk there to
> > > have additional compute power (which isn't going to happen unless folk
> > > stamp up some machines _or_ funding).
> >
> > I now have an arm cross compiler (gcc-4.0.2-glibc-2.3.6
> > arm-unknown-linux-gnu). (See the results page at
> > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/9/ - I must get a better
> > name/place :-(.) Is this sufficient to help you out? What configs would
> > be useful to build (as Andrew said, they don't take very long each).
> >
> > I really want as many subsystems as possible in the linux-next tree in an
> > attempt to avoid some of the merge/conflict problems we have had in the
> > past. What can we do to help?
>
> OK, I tried this out: I built all 75 arm defconfigs with the cross
> compiler above (the resulting log file is at
> http://ozlabs.org/~sfr/armall.log.bz2). 17 failed (I don't know why - I
> didn't even really look).

2 errors are expected (long-standing breakages).

14 failures are due to your ancient gcc 4.0.2 not supporting -mabi=aapcs-linux:
/scratch/sfr/next/scripts/mod/empty.c:1: error: invalid ABI option: -mabi=aapcs-linux

Another one is an internal error in your ancient compiler:
/scratch/sfr/next/arch/arm/common/it8152.c:148: internal compiler error: in trunc_int_for_mode, at explow.c:53

Can you build a cross compiler using gcc 4.2.3 from ftp.gnu.org instead?
That one serves me perfectly for my cross-compile tests.

>...
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
>...

cu
Adrian

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