From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756907Ab0I1QwV (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:52:21 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47020 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755200Ab0I1QwU (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:52:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA21D34.7010209@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:52:04 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Herrmann CC: Jan Beulich , "Seidel, Conny" , "borislav.petkov" , "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> <20100928161912.GF5003@loge.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20100928161912.GF5003@loge.amd.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 09:19 AM, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:08:29PM -0400, 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? > > BTW, the build error looks similar to the build problem fixed by > > commit e8a0e27662186f8856a0a6242e7a8386c9a64a53 > Author: Ingo Molnar > Date: Fri Nov 21 15:11:32 2008 +0100 > > x86: clean up after: move entry_64.S register saving out of the macros, fix > Well, yes of course... it can be summarized as "macros in binutils 2.16 are broken beyond anyone's wildest beliefs". -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.