Re: ftrace breaks sparc64 build

Jan Beulich
2009-01-06T12:39:41Z

>>> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> 06.01.09 12:35 >>>
>On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 07:53:04AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> The others look like a tools side behavioral difference, as I never saw any
>> such. Is this problem sparc32-specific (I tested x86 and ia64 only)? What's
>> the binutils version used?
>
>2.18.50.0.6.
>
>And no, it's not tools side. What it is, AFAICT, is that sparc32 has
>LDFLAGS_vmlinux = -r, which leaves a metric arseload of relocs that
>wouldn't have survived into vmlinux otherwise. Look at .rela__ksymtab
>in .tmp_vmlinux1, for example...

That I think can only be taken care of by disallowing the stripping for that
arch, i.e. adding a negative dependency to the Kconfig option. Or can
anyone think of any other solution?

Jan