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From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random and
> > > > predictible ways. H.J. stated:
> > > 
> > > s/predictable/unpredictable?
> > 
> > No. It fails randomly, but also predictable. Enable X32 support on 64bit
> > and it fails the VDSO build. That's been the case for years.
> 
> Then please make this a bit more apparent, such as:
> 
>  "The gold linker has known issues of failing the build in random
>   but also in more predictible ways."

<bikeshedding>
How about:

The gold linker has known issues of failing for certain configurations.

</bikeshedding>

					- Ted