From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754801Ab0I1QVG (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:21:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35236 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753853Ab0I1QVE (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA215DF.2060409@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:20:47 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.1.3-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: Conny Seidel , "borislav.petkov@" , Andreas Herrmann3 , "mingo@elte.hu" , LKML Subject: Re: current TIP/master doesn't build on SLES10 References: <20100928163136.7a2355d0@marah.osrc.amd.com> <4CA22F1D020000780001961F@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA22F1D020000780001961F@vpn.id2.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/28/2010 09:08 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 28.09.10 at 16:31, Conny Seidel 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? > It definitely sounds like the binutils 2.16 brainscrewage, perhaps one of the question is for you: what version is on your system... -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.