Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the tip tree

Stephen Rothwell
2016-03-01T09:40:12Z

Hi Ingo,

On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:07:50 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > This build is done with a PowerPC hosted cross compiler with no glibc.
>
> Ugh, what a rare and weird way to build an x86 kernel, and you made linux-next
> dependent on it?

It is just the fastest hardware I currently have access to (you remember
who I work for, right? ;-)). I have always done at least part of the
linux-next building (daily, or overnight) on PowerPC hardware and this
is only the 2nd or third time in over 8 years that it has found an
issue like this.

> > I assume that some things here need to be built with HOSTCC?
>
> I suspect that's the culprit.

Good, hopefully it is not too hard to fix.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell