Re: current TIP/master doesn't build on SLES10

[Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.09.10 at 16:31, Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@amd.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > compiling TIP/master (44bc8c4f500fce7263803b4acd016fa03cf8a91a) on
> > SLES10 fails with the following build error:
> > 
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1181: Error: too many positional arguments
> > arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:1181: Error: too many positional arguments
> > make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> > make: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
> > 
> > I've bisected it to commit df5d1874ce1a1f0e0eceff4fa3a9d45620243a68.
> > 
> > Reverting it fixes the issue. 
> > 
> > I know that this is caused by binutils 2.16.91.0.5 which is distributed
> > with SLES10.
> 
> I'm generally doing almost all of my work on SLE10, and have not run
> into this issue. Are you sure you've got it fully updated?

BTW, the build error looks similar to the build problem fixed by

  commit e8a0e27662186f8856a0a6242e7a8386c9a64a53
  Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
  Date:   Fri Nov 21 15:11:32 2008 +0100

    x86: clean up after: move entry_64.S register saving out of the macros, fix



Andreas