Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO

Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-27T02:08:36Z

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 06:27:37PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Currently, the VDSO is being linked through $(CC). This does not match
> > how the rest of the kernel links objects, which is through the $(LD)
> > variable.
>
> this causes build errors for me when (cross) compiling a big endian target:
>
> target is little endian
> mips64-linux-gnu-ld: arch/mips/vdso/elf.o: endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation
> mips64-linux-gnu-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file arch/mips/vdso/elf.o

Thanks for the report. I will look into it tomorrow and hopefully have a
v4 by then.

Cheers,
Nathan